Aloud

adv.; also 4–6 aloude, 6 alowd, [A prep.¹ of manner + LOUD a. Cf. alow, ahigh.]

  1.  In a loud voice; with great noise; loudly.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, II. 401. The kinges foole is wont to crie aloud.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 23. Lauhynge al a-loude.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, XV. 6251. He … on lowde saide.

1539.  Bible (‘great’), Gen. xlv. 2 (R.). He wepte alowde.

1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., V. i. 3. Ring Belles alowd, burne Bonfires. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., II. iv. 153. Ile tell the world aloud, What man thou art.

1767.  Fordyce, Serm. Yng. Wom., I. vi. 252. One of the Company would often read aloud.

1821.  Keats, Isabel, xxxiii. In dreams they groan’d aloud.

  b.  doubtfully attrib.

1509.  Hawes, Past. Pleas., XLII. iii. Open thine eares unto my song aloude.

1806.  W. Taylor, in Robberds’ Mem., II. 137. The only serious poem that is resorted to for aloud reading.

  2.  fig. (colloq.)

1872.  Daily News, 28 Feb., 7/5. The stuff, to quote the trenchant expression of an on-looker, ‘stank aloud.’