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Viva Voce
/ˈvaɪvə ˈvoʊt͡ʃɪ/
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What does Viva Voce mean?
adjective
- Done by word of mouth.
adverb
- By word of mouth.
noun
- An oral examination.
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/ˈvaɪvə ˈvoʊt͡ʃɪ/
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He brought the subject before his audience in his own clear and admirable viva voce style.
By expresse Words, or Testament, when it is declared by him in his life time, viva voce, or by Writing; as the first Emperours of Rome declared who should be their Heires.
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The King’s attorney on the contrary Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired To have brought viva voce to his face; At which appeared against him his surveyor, Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor, and John Car, Confessor to him, with that devil monk, Hopkins, that made this mischief.
The want of formality or rudeness was, probably, my not having address'd the paper to them with their assum'd titles of True and Absolute Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania, which I omitted as not thinking it necessary in a paper, the intention of which was only to reduce to a certainty by writing, what in conversation I had delivered viva voce.