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Ventriloquism n. The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from a dummy held by the ventriloquist, from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.

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Etymology of 'Ventriloquism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ventriloquism" Quotes from Famous Books

... blown upon these withered anatomies, through the blowpipe of his own creative genius, a stream of gas that swelled the tissue of their antediluvian wrinkles, forced colour upon their cheeks, and splendour upon their sodden eyes. Such a process of ventriloquism never has existed. He spoke by their organs. They were the tubes; and he forced through their wooden machinery his own ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... It was not a mechanical device within the image. It was not a clever piece of ventriloquism. Of this we are assured—the image actually spoke. God's word cannot lie, and John, under the command of God, wrote it down: "It was given the false Prophet to give spirit to the image of the Beast, that the image of the Beast ...

— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson

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