5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Gal. iv. 20.
My voice is in my sword.
Shak.
Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
Bp. Fell. 6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
1 Cit. He has our voices, sir.
Shak.
Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice
Of holy senates, and elect by voice.
Dryden. 7. Command; precept; — now chiefly used in scriptural language.
So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.
Deut. viii.
20. 8. One who speaks; a speaker. "A potent voice of Parliament." Tennyson.
9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means
of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
Active voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as the agent or doer of
the action expressed by it. — Chest voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a
sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced
by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented
to each other. — Head voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a thin quality ascribed to
resonance in the head; voice of the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is
limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other. — Middle voice
(Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the
object of the action, that is, as performing some act to or upon himself, or for his own advantage. —
Passive voice. (Gram.) See under Passive, a. — Voice glide (Pron.), the brief and obscure
neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable as in
able See Glide, n., 2. — Voice stop. See Voiced stop, under Voiced, a. — With one voice,
unanimously. "All with one voice . . . cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." Acts xix. 34.
Voice
(Voice), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Voiced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Voicing ]
1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments
of the nation. "Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges."
Bacon.
It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.
Bacon. 2. (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations
of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
4. To vote; to elect; to appoint. [Obs.] Shak.
Voice
(Voice), v. i. To clamor; to cry out. [Obs.] South.
Voiced
(Voiced) a.
