ventriloque (ventrilok)

[F. ventriloque, a ventriloquist: see ventriloquous.] Ventriloquial. Hood, Irish Schoolmaster. ventriloquial (ven-tri-lō'kwi-al), a. [ ventriloquism. The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping.. "Sing out!" shouted one gentleman.... "I can't," replied Mi Amelia. Dickens , Sketches, Characters, viii. Ventriloquial monkey, a South American squirrel monkey of the genus Callithrix. ventriloquially (ven-tri-lō'kwi-al-i), adv. In a ventriloquial manner. Medical News, LII. 278. ventriloquism (ven-tril'ō-kwizm), n. [ tended source of the voice. Ventriloquism was known to the ancient Greeks as well as to the Romans. ... What is called ventriloquism, and is not uncommonly ascribed to a mysterious power of producing voice somewhere else than in the larynx, depends entirely upon the accuracy with which the performer can simulate sounds of a particular character, and upon the skill with which he can suggest a belief in the existence of the causes of these sounds. Thus, if the ventriloquist desire to create the belief that the i ues from the bowels of the earth, imitates, with great accuracy, of half-stifled voice, and suggests the existence of some one uttering it by directing his answers and gestures towards the ground. The gestures and tones are such as would be Huxley .