vociferate

From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”).

vociferate (third-person singular simple present vociferates, present participle vociferating, simple past and past participle vociferated)

1. (intransitive) To cry out with vehemence

   Synonyms: exclaim, bawl, clamor

   (Can we find and add a quotation of William Cowper to this entry?)

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?

2. (transitive) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
   • Vicesimus Knox

     Though he may vociferate the word liberty.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.

vociferate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vociferare
2. second-person plural imperative of vociferare
3. feminine plural of vociferato

vōciferāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vōciferātus