Soliloquize

v. [f. SOLILOQU-Y sb. + -IZE.]

  1.  intr. To engage in soliloquy; to talk to oneself.

1759.  J. G. Cooper, trans. Gresset’s Ver-Vert, II. 26.

1820.  Byron, Juan, III. xcvi. Leaving my people to proceed alone, While I soliloquize beyond expression.

1858.  Baroness Bunsen, in Hare, Life (1879), II. iv. 235. He soliloquises in a manner in which you would tell a story to a child.

1873.  Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 120. Thus, mutely might our friend soliloquize.

  2.  trans. a. To utter in soliloquy.

1805.  Eugenia de Acton, Nuns of Desert, I. 172. Sometimes he … soliloquised a string of barbarous oaths.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. ix. No scenic individual, with knavish hypocritical views, will take the trouble to soliloquize a scene.

1854.  Fraser’s Mag., L. 72. Balder soliloquises his ambition.

  b.  To address or apostrophize in soliloquy.

1823.  New Monthly Mag., VII. 332. When you are soliloquizing the moon.

  Hence Soliloquizer, one who soliloquizes. Also Soliloquizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Soliloquizingly adv.

1802.  Edin. Rev., I. 118. Prosopopœia is more suited to the narrator of such a state, than to the *soliloquizer.

1884.  Pall Mall Gaz., 5 March, 5/1. One of those … soliloquisers of villainy who are specially favoured by the dramatist and the novelist of a certain stamp.

c. 1822.  Campbell, Note to Byron’s Heav. & Earth, iii. 931. Too much tedious *soliloquising.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. II. viii. If the soliloquizing Barber ask: ‘What has your Lordship done to earn all this?’

1870.  Miss Bridgman, R. Lynne, I. xii. 184. In a conversational mood, or, more properly speaking, a soliloquising one.

1840.  New Monthly Mag., LX. 321. ‘Mixture? Comforts?’ said Tim, *soliloquizingly.