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See Legend.] 1.
A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or
discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in
monologue. Dryden.

2. A dramatic composition for a single
performer.

Mo*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;.] The
habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.

It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge
persisted in monology through his whole life.

De Quincey.

{ ||Mon`o*ma"chi*a (?), Mo*nom"a*chy (?), }
n. [L. monomachia, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; fighting
in single combat; mo`nos single, alone + &?; to fight.]
A duel; single combat. "The duello or monomachia."
Sir W. Scott.

Mo*nom"a*chist (?), n. One who
fights in single combat; a duelist.

Mon"o*mane (?), n. A
monomaniac. [R.]

Mon`o*ma"ni*a (?), n. [Mono- +
mania.] Derangement of the mind in regard of a single
subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one
particular subject or train of ideas to show mental
derangement.

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