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murmurous, a.|ˈmɜːmərəs|
[f. murmur n. + -ous.]
1. Characterized or accompanied by subdued continuous sound; abounding in or characterized by murmurs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 25 Where through nyne channels with mountayns murmerus hurring Rough the sea floas forward. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 32. 1659 H. More Immort. Soul iii. xvii. (1662) 219 A joynt groaning of a multitude together, mingled with a murmurous admiration. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 19 Round his swol'n heart the murm'rous fury rowls. 1819Keats Ode to Nightingale v, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 1886C. F. Woolson East Angels ix. 176 The waves..flowed softly up the beach..with a rippling murmurous sound.
quasi-adv.1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 263 Often a trumpeter horn blew murmurous, hoarsely resounding.
†2. Complaining, grumbling. Obs.
1592Stow Ann. 691 This yeere many murmurous tales ranne in the citye betweene the earle of Warwike and the Queenes blood. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vi. v. (1852) 384 The judgments of God upon the murmurous Israelites.
Hence ˈmurmurously adv., ˈmurmurousness.
1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. xxii, And murmurously the ebbing waters grit The little pebbles. 1890Chamb. Jrnl. 13 Sept. 592/2 Murmurously low Falls the sad rhythm of old Ocean's tread. 1903Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 2/1 Two streams of water flow..into stone basins, lulling one with a sleepy murmurousness. |