soliloquize

English

Etymology

From soliloquy +‎ -ize.

Verb

soliloquize (third-person singular simple present soliloquizes, present participle soliloquizing, simple past and past participle soliloquized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (intransitive, drama) Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 276:

     "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]

   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:

     I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."

Alternative forms

• soliloquise (British spelling)

Translations

to perform a soliloquy

• Bulgarian: произнасям монолог (proiznasjam monolog)
• Catalan: monologar (ca)
• German: ein Selbstgespräch führen, mit sich selber reden, monologisieren (de)
• Greek: μονολογώ (el) (monologó)
• Maori: kōrero whaiaroaro
• Portuguese: soliloquiar, monologar (pt)

to talk to oneself

• Bulgarian: говоря си сам (govorja si sam)
• Maori: motatau

See also

• monologize