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In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.

rch style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

he signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding Milton.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

by melody, as distinguished from harmony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

ed with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

Destitute of tone vocality; surd. Rush.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.

To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged

A piece or pessage, whether vocal or instrumental, pecuilarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.

The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.