soliloquize 
soliloquize (so-lil'o-kwiz), r. /. ; pret. ami pp. 
xolilnquizrd, ppr. noliloijiii~init. [< mlHo<in-y + 
-i::i:] To utter a soliloquy; talk to one's self. 
Also spelled xnliliii/iiixr. 
soliloquy (so-lil'o-kwi). .; j)!. siililniiiiii-.i 
(-kwi)',). [=' F. soliloque = Sp. Pg. It. solilo- 
i/iiio, < LL. soliliii/iiiiim, a talking to one's self, 
< so/ii.'-; iilone, + loqui, speak.] 1. A talking 
to one's self; a discourse or talk by a person 
who is alone, or which is not addressed to any 
one even when others are present. 2. A writ- 
ten composition containing such a talk or dis- 
course, or what purports to be one. 
Soliloquies ; or, holy self-conferences of the devout soul, 
upon sundry choice occasions. 
Bp. Hall, Soliloquies, Title. 
The whole Poem is a Soliloquy. Prior, Solomon, Pref. 
SOliped (sol'i-ped), a. and n. [Also solipede; = 
F. xolipede = Sp. solipedo = Pg. solipede, contr. < 
L. solidipes (-ped-), solid-hoofed, whole-hoofed, 
< solidus, solid, + peg (ped-) = E. foot.'] Same 
as solidmif/ulate. 
solipedal (sol'i-ped-al), a. [< soliped + -al.] 
Same as solidunyulafe. 
solipede (sol'i-ped), . Same as solidnngulate. 
Sir T. Browne. 
solipedous (so-lip'e-dus), a. Same as solidiiii- 
t/ulate. 
solipsism (sol'ip-sizm), . [< L. solus, alone, 
+ ipse, self, + -ism.'} The belief or proposition 
that the person entertaining it alone exists, and 
that other people exist only as ideas in his mind. 
The identification of one's self with the Absolute Is not gen- 
erally intended, but the denial of there being really any- 
body else. The doctrine appears to be nothing more than 
a man of straw set up by metaphysicians in their reason- 
ings. 
solipsist (sol'ip-sist), n. [< L. solus, alone, + 
ipse, self, + -ist.] One who believes in his own 
existence only. 
solipsistic (sol-ip-sis'tik), a. [< solipsist + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to solipsism. 
solisequious (sol-i-se'kwi-us), a. [Cf. L. solsc- 
quium, the sunflower; < L. sol, the sun, + sequl, 
follow: see sequent.] Following the course of 
the sun : as, the sunflower is a solisequious plant. 
solist (so'list), w. Same as soloist. 
solitaire (sol-i-tar'), . [F., < L. solitarius, 
alone, lonely: see solitary.] 1. A person who 
lives in solitude ; a recluse ; a hermit ; a solitary. 
Often have I been quietly going to take possession of 
that tranquillity and indolence I had so long found in the 
country, when one evening of your conversation has spoiled 
me for a solitaire too ! 
Pope, To Lady M. W. Montagu, Aug. 18, 1716. 
2. A precious stone, oftenest a diamond, set by 
itself, and not combined with other jewels. 
3f. A loose necktie of black silk, resembling 
a ribbon, sometimes secured to the bag of the 
wig behind, and in front either falling loosely 
or secured by a brooch or similar jewel: a 
fashion for men in the eighteenth century. 
He came In a solitaire, great sleeves, jessamine-powder, 
and a large bouquet of jonquils. Gray, Letters, I. 310. 
4. A game which one person can play alone. In 
particular and properly (a) A game played on a board 
indented with thirty-three or thirty-seven hemispherical 
hollows, with an equal number of balls. One ball is re- 
moved from the board, and the empty hollow thus left en- 
ables pieces to be captured. The object of the player is 
to take by jumping, as in checkers, all the pieces except 
one without moving diagonally or over more than one 
space at a time; or else, by similar moves, to leave cer- 
tain configurations. (&) One of a great number of card- 
games, the usual object of which is to bring the shuffled 
and confused cards into regular order or sequence. This 
sort of game is more properly called patience. 
5. In ornith. : (a) An extinct didine bird, Pe- 
eophaps solitarius. See Pezophaps. (6) A fly- 
catching thrush of Jamaica, Myiadestes arm Hia- 
tus, which leads a retired life in wooded moun- 
tainous resorts: hence, any bird of this genus. 
The name was originally applied to the bird of Marti- 
nique, now known as tl. gembarbis. Townsend's solitaire 
is a common bird of many parts of the western United 
States. All are fine songsters. See Myiadestes. (<) The 
pensive thrush, Monticola or Petrocincla soli- 
liir/a. See rock-thrush. 
solitariant (sol-i-ta'ri-an), ii. [< L. toutartas, 
alone, lonely, + -an.] " A hermit: a solitary. 
solitariety (sol'i-ta-ri'e-ti), n. [< L. solitarius, 
alone, lonely, + '-etij.] Solitary condition or 
state; aloneness. 
According to the Egyptians, before all entities and prin- 
ciples there is one God, who is in order of nature before 
(him that is commonly called) the first God and King, 
immoveable, and alway remaining in the sohtanety of his 
own unity. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 336. 
solitarily (sol'i-ta-ri-li), adv. In a solitary 
manner; without company; alone; by ones 
self; in solitude. 
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B781 
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock ,,f thine her! 
tage, which dwell solitarilii in tin- 1. Mi.-iih vii. 1 1. 
Solitariness (sori-ta-ri-nos), . 1. Tin- f:tet 
or itate <>f bring solitiirv, or ulonc, or without 
mate, partner, or companion, or of dwelling 
apart from others or by one's self: Imhit mil re- 
tirement ; solitude. 
A man to eate alone is likewise great solitanneste. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Ilellowes, l.'.T. 
2. The state or character of being retired or 
unfrequented; solitude; seclusion: as, the <ili- 
turiiicxs of a wood. 
Birds . . . had found their way into the chapel, and 
built their nests among itw friezes anil pendants sure 
signs of solitariness and desertion. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 218. 
solitariousness (sol-i-ta'ri-us-nes),?!. Solitude; 
seclusion, Asrham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 41. 
SOlitarityt (sol-i-tar'i-ti), . [< solitary + -ity.] 
Solitude ; loneliness!' 
I shall be abandoned at once to solidarity and penury. 
W. Taylor, To Southey, Dec. 10, 1811. 
solitary (sol'i-ta-ri), a. and n. [< ME. solihi- 
rii; xnlijtarye, < OF. "solitarie, solitaire, F. soli- 
taire = Pr. solitari, soletari = Sp. Pg. It. soli- 
tario, < L. solitarius, solitary (LL. as n. an 
anchorite), for "solitatarius, \ solita(t-)s, lone- 
liness, < solus, alone: see sole 3 .] I. a. 1. 
Living alone, or by one's self or by itself; 
without companions or associates ; habitually 
inclined to avoid company. 
Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. 
Milton, f. L., vil. 461. 
The solitary man is as speechless as the lower animals. 
Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 286. 
2. All by one's self ; without companions ; un- 
attended. 
The Indian holds his course, silent, solitary, but un- 
daunted, through the boundless tx>som of the wilderness. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 361. 
3. Marked by solitude ; especially, remote from 
society; unfrequented; retired; secluded; lone- 
ly: as, a solitary glen. 
Whiche bothe lye in the abbey of saynt Justyne vyrgyn, 
a place of Blake Monkes, ryght delectable, and also soly- 
tarye. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 6. 
Cor. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master 
Touchstone? . . . 
Touch. ... In respect that it is solitary, I like it very 
well. Shale., As you Like it, lit 2. 16. 
4. Free from the sounds of human life ; still; 
dismal. 
Let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come 
therein. Job Hi. 7. 
5. Having a sense of loneliness ; lonesome. 
I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody 
is with me. Emerson, Nature, I. 
6f. Retiring; diffident. 
Your honour doth say that you doe iudge me to be a 
man solitarie and vertuous. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577X p. 78. 
7. Passed without company; shared by no 
companions; lonely. 
I was upon Point of going abroad to steal a solitary 
Walk when yours of the 12th current came to hand. 
Hoicell, Letters, ii. 50. 
Him fair Lavinia, thy surviving wife, 
Shall breed in groves, to lead a solitary life. 
Dryden, Maeld, vi. 1088. 
8. Single ; sole ; only, or only one : as, a soli- 
tary instance ; a solitary example. 
A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 
Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 
Byron, Don Juan, ii. 53. 
Politeness was his [Charles II. 's] solitary good quality. 
Macaulay, Dryden. 
9. In bot., one only in a place; separate: as, 
a solitary stipule. A flower is said to be solitary when 
there is only one on each peduncle, or only one to each 
plant ; a seed, when there is only one in a pericarp. 
All the New Zealand species [Pterostylis trullifolia] bear 
solitary flowers, so that distinct plants cannot fail to be 
intercrossed. Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 89. 
10. In anat., single; separate; not clustered ; 
not agminate or gathered into patches ; sim- 
ple; not compound: as. the solitary follicles of 
the intestine. 11. In rod'/.: (a) Not social, 
sociable, or gregarious : noting species living 
habitually alone, or in pairs only. (6) Simple ; 
not compound, aggregate, or colonial: as, soli- 
tary ascidians. See Simpliees Solitary ante, 
the MutiUidx or spider-ants. Solitary bees, bees that 
do not live in a hive or community like the honey-bee, 
and are represented only by developed males and females, 
like most insects. There are very many species, of nu- 
merous genera. The designation is chiefly descriptive, 
not classincatory, but sometimes denotes the A nanmaa 
as distinguished from the .4 nidte. Solitary bundle. 
Same as solitary funiculus. Solitary confinement, in 
a general sense, the separate confinement of a prisoner, 
solitude 
with only "H-easional access of any other j>er*on, and that 
only at the discretion of the jailer ; In a stricter sense, the 
' "iniilrte Nilrttion cf :i jirisom-t from :tl] linnian ^ 
..r.il his ronnneiiieiit In ;< eil tint he tias no 
ililert inteir.miM' \vjth, MI siu'ht of, :inj hilmiin being, and 
Mo employment 01 H- Medley, 
I:H r. s., HIM. Solitary follicle. - ' . un- 
i\i-r : il<iml. Solitary funlCUlU8,:u oiiml bundle of Hbeis 
laterad of the eomliine'l unftU-oeued nucleus of die K!OB- 
sopharyngeus, vagus, and spinal accessory, which pauea 
out aa ont of the ioot> uf tfie gloMophanrnffMU, l>ui m:iy 
eontrilmte to the vagus and acccMnry. ''-end- 
ing rout of ijlotwifphfirynt/fwt, fasciculus rotundus, ascend- 
ing root ftf the lateral mixed w 'nrius, 
respiratory bundle, and fascicle of Krause. - Solitary 
glands. Bee pbmd Solitary greenlet or vlreo, 
Vino solitarius, the blue-headed Ki'eenlet or vireo of 
the United States, having greenish upper parts, a bluish 
Solitary Greenlet or Vireo (t-'irto solitarius). 
head, an eye ring, and the under parts white, tinged with 
yellowish on the sides. It is 6A inches long, and si in extent 
of wings. Solitary sandpiper, the green sandpiper of 
North America, Rhyacophuus solitarius, 8} inches long, 
extent 16, having the upper parts blackish with a tinge 
of green and spotted with white, the under parts white, 
streaked on the throat and breast with dusky, barred on 
the sides, lining of wings, and tail with black and white, 
the bill black, the feet greenish-black. See cut under 
Rhyacophilus. Solitary snipe. See snipe, 1 (a) BX 
Solitary Vlreo. Same as solitary greenlet. Solitary 
wasps, wasps which, like certain bees and ants, do not 
A Solitary Wasp (l.arratia stmirttfa). (Cross shows natural size.) 
live in society, as the true wasps of the families Kumeni- 
dee and Mamri<t<r, as well as all the digger-wasps : con- 
trasted with social maps. See digyer-watp, sand-mup, 
and wasp. 
II. ;;. ; pi. solitaries (-riz). One who lives 
alone or in solitude; an anchorite; a recluse; 
a hermit. 
The world itself has some attractions in it to a solitary 
of ix years' standing. Gray, Letters, I. 154. 
Downward from his mountain gorge 
Slept the long-hair d, long-bearded solitary. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
solito (sol'i-to), adr. [It., < L. solitus, accus- 
tomed, < solere, be accustomed.] In music, in 
the usual, customary manner. 
solitude (sol'i-tud), n. [< ME. solitude, < OF. 
(and F.) solitude = It. solitudine, < L. solittido. 
loneliness, < solus, alone: see sole 3 .] 1. The 
state of being alone; a lonely life; loneliness. 
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it 
extendeth ; for a crowd is not company. . . . It is a mere 
and miserable solitude to want true friends. 
Bacon, Friendship. 
O, might I here 
In solitude live savage, in some glade 
Obscured ! Milton, f. L., ix. 1085. 
2. Remoteness from society; lack or utter 
want of companionship : applied to place : as, 
the solitude of a wood or a valley. 
The solitude of his little parish Is become matter of 
great comfort to him. Law. 
3. A lonely, secluded, or unfrequented place ; 
a desert. 
We walked about 2 miles from y citty to an agreeable 
solitude called Uu Plewls, a house belonging to y* King. 
Evelyn, Diary, June 7, 1644. 
