Obs. nonce-wd. [f. L. cor, cordi- heart, after ventriloquy: cf. CARDIPHONIA.] A speaking from the heart.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. ix. 83. Some have questioned ventriloquie, when men strangely speak out of their bellies…: might I coin the word cordiloquie, when men draw the doctrines out of their hearts, [etc.].
