a. and sb. [ad. L. vōciferant-, vōciferans, pres. pple. of vōciferārī, -āre: see next.]
A. adj. Clamoring, bawling, vociferating.
1609. J. Davies (Heref.), Holy Roode, Wks. (Grosart), I. 19/2. For, all his Wounds, with voice vociferant, Crie out they can more than supply each want!
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., 214. The most vociferant vulgar … do least know what the matter is.
1685. H. More, Paralip. Prophet., vi. 38. That Themistocles came to Artaxerxes, not to Xerxes,… he proves from a plain narrative, where there is no mention of any vociferant Ecstatical Olbius.
1836. Westm. Rev., XXIV. 82. A new race of parsons sprung up, half political leaders, half-fanatical fire-brands … now declaiming in the pulpit, now vociferant in the tavern [etc.].
1850. Browning, Christmas Eve, iv. 28. My mind was full of the scene I had left, That placid flock, that pastor vociferant.
1863. Mrs. Whitney, Faith Gartney’s Girlh., xiv. She … shook first him and then his frock … and carried him, vociferant, to the door.
B. sb. A clamorous or noisy person.
1890. Atlantic Monthly, May, 675/2. Strange as it may appear to earnest but misguided vociferants.
