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stentorophonic, a.|ˌstɛntərəʊˈfɒnɪk|
Also 7–8 -ick; blundered forms 7 stentoreophonic, 7–8 stentrophonick, 8 stentonorophonic(k.
[ad. mod.L. Stentorophōnicus (f. Gr. στεντορόϕωνος having the voice of a Stentor, f. στεντορ- (στέντωρ) + ϕωνή voice), in tuba Stentorophonica, the name given by Sir S. Morland to the speaking-trumpet invented by him (also called Stentorophonicon).]
†1. stentorophonic horn, stentorophonic trumpet, stentorophonic tube: a speaking trumpet. Obs.
[1671Sir S. Morland (title), A description of the Tuba⁓stentorophonica. 1683–4Phil. Trans. XIV. 481 For if the Stentoro-phonecon..does such great feats, what might be done [etc.]. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 96 He has Loud Trumpets made as big, and like our Stentoro-Phonica, or speaking Trumpet. ]
1685Phil. Trans. XV. 1185 He writes of..Stentoreophonic Tubes, the invention of which he justly ascribes to Sr Samuel Morland. a1704T. Brown Walk round Lond., Quaker's-Meeting (1709) 19 The spirit speaks in them, they are but the Stentonorophonic Tubes. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 257 ⁋2 There was an Organ,..a Stentorophonick-Trumpet. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. iii. 130 Of this Stentorophonick Horn of Alexander, there is a Figure preserved in the Vatican. 1800Vince Hydrost. xi. (1806) 113 Sound is conveyed to the greatest distance by a trumpet, called a speaking or stentorophonic trumpet. 1803Cavallo Elem. Nat. Philos. II. 312 Hence arises the effect of the speaking trumpet, or stentorophonic tube. 1811–31Bentham Language Wks. 1843 VIII. 313/2, 1. Instruments whereby increase is given to the diffusion of audible and evanescent signs:—1. Stentorophic [sic] tubes.
2. † Loud as a speaking-trumpet (obs.); in later use (echoed from Hudibras) = stentorian a. 1.
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 252, I heard a Formidable Noise Loud as the Stentrophonick Voice, That Roar'd far off, Despatch and Strip. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 72 (1713) II. 193, I heard..a loud Stentorophonick Bawl, which presently was raised to a high Scream. 1704D'Urfey Hell beyond Hell 72 Bawling with stentrophonick might. 1782V. Knox Ess. No. 164 ⁋13. II. 324 A stentorophonic voice is the fundamental excellence of your Fine Man. 1822T. L. Peacock Maid Marian xii, Little John read aloud with a stentorophonic voice. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. i. 834 The whirr of the ventilating fans, the stentorophonic orchestra, the red-faced raucous atom on the stage combined to irritate him beyond farther endurance.
So † stentoroˈphonical a. (in the same sense), † stentoroˈphonically adv.
1676Shadwell Virtuoso ii. 36 Sir Nic. After dinner we..will survey my Microscopes,..Stentrophonical Tubes, and the like. 1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxi, A fair White Cock..crowed Stentoriphonically loud. |