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stentorian, a.|stɛnˈtɔərɪən|
[f. Stentor2 + -ian. Cf. Gr. στεντόρειος, L. Stentoreus.]
1. Of the voice: Loud, like that of Stentor (see Stentor2 1); very loud and far-reaching; hence, of uttered sounds, song, laughter and the like.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 20 My Stentorian Song,..Shall brim be heard from India even to Spain. 1606Ibid. ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 264 Whose Stentorian sound Doth far and wide o'r all the world rebound. 1623Cockeram i, Stentorian-voice, a voice so loud and strong, as the voice of one hundred men. 1711Countrey-Man's Let. to Curat 31 The Mighty Talkers..who Conjure down the whole Modest Part of the Creation with a Stentorian noise. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vii. 169 An uproarious dance follows, accompanied with stentorian song. 1872C. Gibbon For the King xxxviii, ‘Hold’ exclaimed the general, in stentorian tones.
fig.1638Featly Strict. Lyndom. ii. 77 What a lowd and Stentorian untruth is here uttered by a foule mouthed Iesuit?
2. That utters stentorian sounds.
stentorian trumpet = stentorophonic trumpet.
1690Pagan Prince xli. 119 Setting a Stentorian Trumpet to his Mouth, [he] call'd out to the Belgians in a most Terrible and Astonishing Tone. 1875F. T. Buckland Log-Book 27 An invitation issuing from stentorian lungs to ‘Step hinside and see’ [etc.]. 1878H. W. Bates Stanford's Compend. Geogr., Central Amer. etc. 187 Here [Trinidad] we meet, among the monkey tribe, with..the stentorian Howlers (Mycetes).
Hence stenˈtorianly adv.
1880Mrs. Compton Reade Brown Hand & White ix, ‘We are going to smoke’, [said she] stentorianly. |