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Stentor2|ˈstɛntɔː(r)|
[Gr. στέντωρ, Hom. Iliad v. 785.]
1. The name of a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, ‘whose voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men’; applied allusively to a man of powerful voice.
1600Nashe Summer's Last Will F 3 b, Those mountaines are the houses of great Lords, Where Stentor with his hundreth voices sounds A hundreth trumpes at once with rumor fild. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. ii, Rogues, Hell-hounds, Stentors, out of my doores, you sonnes of noyse and tumult. c1611Chapman Iliad To Rdr., Brutish noises..Are bellow'd-out, and cracke the barbarous voices Of Turkish Stentors. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. v, [He] bawled out, ‘Murder! thieves!’ with the voice of a Stentor. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop i, Laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out. 1870R. Brough Marston Lynch x. 90 She roared the..words through her hands with the lungs of a stentor.
‖2. [mod.L.] A genus of Protozoa; an individual of this genus, a trumpet-shaped protozoan.
1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 766 The second figure represents the Stentor, so called because its general shape bears some resemblance to that of a speaking-trumpet. 1875Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XI. 160/2, I found it to consist of an immense assemblage of stentors, apparently Stentor polymorpha, imbedded in a mass of dirty-looking jelly.
3. A platyrrhine monkey of the South American genus Mycetes.
1891Century Dict.
4. attrib. with the meaning ‘stentorian’.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. iii, Where Mirabeau is now, with stentor-lungs, ‘denouncing Agio.’ Ibid. III. i. iv, ‘Legislators!’ so speaks the stentor-voice. |