ppl. a. [f. VOICE sb. and v.]
1. Endowed with or possessing a voice; having a voice like that of some other person or being.
In some instances perhaps the passive participle.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xxxvii. 10. Sen we ar voced, whairfor suld we refrane, To suffer pain for ony bodies bost?
1642. Denham, Sophy, IV. 34. That’s Erythæa, Or some Angell voyc’t like her.
a. 1821. Keats, Wks. (1889), II. 15. Where the germs take buoyant root in stormy Air, suck lightning sap, and become voiced dragons.
1861. Ld. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 11. God to her rescue sends Voiced seraphims.
transf. 1834. Ld. Houghton, Mem. Tour Greece, 138. How were ye voiced, ye Stars—how cheerily Castor and Pollux spoke to the quivering seaman.
1849. Tait’s Mag., XVI. 108/2. All was silence and all was solitude, and yet all was voiced and all was full.
1861. Ld. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 34. Oft have you flooded this fair space with song, Waked these voiced walls, and vocal made yon roof.
b. Having a voice of a specified kind, quality or tone.
For clear-, faint-, gentle-, hoarse-, hollow-, loud-, low-, † nine-, † rank- (1513), rough-, shrill-, soft-, sweet-voiced, etc., see the adjs.
1637. Austin, Hæc Homo, v. 128. Ovid … advised women (who are so angel-like voyced) to learne by musicks rules, to order it.
1884. W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, 61. Never were rills and fountains So merrily voiced as these.
† 2. Much or highly spoken of; commended, famed. Obs.–1
1661. Life T. Fuller, 14. He continued his pious endeavours of preaching in most of the voyced pulpits of London.
3. Phonology. Uttered with voice (or vibration of the vocal chords) as opposed to breath; sonant. Said esp. of certain consonants, as opposed to those which are voiceless (see VOICELESS a. 5).
1867. A. M. Bell, Visible Sp., 67. The initially voiced v sinks imperceptibly into its voiceless correspondent f—as if the word were written leavf.
1876. Douse, Grimm’s L., App. D. 195. The action of the chordae in the production of voiced sounds.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 64. The pronunciation of certain letters is also somewhat indistinct, especially the voiced explosives such as b, d, g.
b. Of breath.
1877. Sweet, Handbk. Phonetics, 74. As stops can only be voiced by driving voiced breath into an air-tight chamber, they cannot be continued for any length of time.
