monologuize

Verb

monologuize (third-person singular simple present monologuizes, present participle monologuizing, simple past and past participle monologuized)

1. (intransitive) To give a monologue; to soliloquize.
   • He kept the ball always going, but did not monologuize, except when he was appealed to as a judge, and then did it with a mellow grace that no man can learn without Natures aid.1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place, page 168
   • In The Sound and the Fury, the beautiful reality of Caddy's character might be brought home to us by that means without actually making her monologuize.1976, Jagdish Chander, Narindar Singh Pradhan, Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honour of William Mulder, page 89
2. (transitive) To make into a monologue.
   • On the phenomenic level, of course, a dialogue can "monologuize" itself in the same way that a monologue can acquire features of "latent dialogue," etc. (see J. Mukafovsky, 1940a: 146-153);1980, Dispositio - Issues 13-18, page 62
   • At this point the thoughts of the boy are couched in the language of the boy — they are monologuized.1985, Hetty Clews, The only teller: readings in the monologue novel, page 44