| Vocal (vocal) |
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| a. | (?) |
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| Vo"cal |
| [L. vocalis, fr.
vox, vocis, voice: cf. F. vocal. See Voice,
and cf. Vowel.] |
Of or pertaining to the
voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or
voices.
Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as,
vocal melody; vocal prayer.
Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound;
also, (?)poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; --
said of certain articulate sounds.
Consisting
of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may
be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by
obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l,
etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant;
intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to
Pronunciation, §§ 199-202.
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| Vocal (vocal) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Vo"cal |
| [Cf. F. vocal, LL.
vocalis.]
|
A vocal sound; specifically, a
purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or
a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a
subvocal, and a nonvocal.
A man who has a right to vote
in certain elections.
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