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ven·tril·o·quism

 (vĕn-trĭl′ə-kwĭz′əm)
n.
The art of projecting one's voice so that it seems to come from another source, as from a wooden figure.
[From Latin ventriloquus, speaking from the belly : venter, ventr-, belly + loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]
ven′tri·lo′qui·al (-trə-lō′kwē-əl) adj.
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Agatha broke it because she was fond of making toffee, of eating it, of a good fire, of doing any forbidden thing, and of the admiration with which the servants listened to her ventriloquial and musical feats.
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Grimwig, speaking by some ventriloquial power, without moving a muscle of his face.
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For the words which I intended the corpse to speak, I confidently depended upon my ventriloquial abilities; for their effect, I counted upon the conscience of the murderous wretch.
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'Do not interrupt this ventriloquial necromanciss, my friend,' it said in English.
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In York, this ventriloquial performance is definitively awkward; Christ himself is present when Lazarus speaks.
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