单词 | stridulous |
释义 | stridulousadj. 1. Emitting or producing a shrill grating sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > harsh and shrill (of sound) > making yellingOE yellinga1382 stridulous?1611 strident1656 stridulatory1838 stridulant1843 stridulating1861 ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads iii. Comm. 48 But where they were graue and wise Counsellors, to make them garrulous, as Grashoppers are stridulous; that application holdeth not in these old men. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 369 The Church then is a Dove.., not a stridulous Jay. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xiv. 250 A servant sometimes complained to me,..that when he was put to whet a knife, that stridulous motion of the air was wont to make his gummes bleed. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 767 Stridulous guitar with wiry twang. 1864 G. A. Lawrence Maurice Dering II. 32 That..stridulous young person, who..screams when she talks, and squalls when she sings. 1878 H. W. Longfellow Ovid in Exile ii. 30 Nor as before o'er the Ister Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. 2. Of voice, sound: Harsh, shrill, grating. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > shrill or forced shrillc1386 shirl1418 straineda1542 treble1550 efforced1590 shrilly1594 minikin1602 stridulous1646 feigned1664 extended1699 pipy1769 falsetto1826 screechy1834 stridulent1874 roofy1897 taut1916 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > harsh and shrill (of sound) stridulous1646 gnarringa1849 stridulent1874 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 95 A small and stridulous noyse. View more context for this quotation 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 153 A feeble stridulous sound. 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 252 The shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous,..marvellously delights some hearers. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 268 In piercing accents stridulous. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 229 Rousseau..sought new life away from the stridulous hum of men. 3. Pathology. Pertaining to or affected with stridor. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > noisy breathing stridulous1822 stertorous1842 cavernous1853 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > rattling > in throat stridulous1822 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 533 Laryngismus stridulus. Stridulous constriction of the Larynx. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 360 More or less dyspnoea is usually felt, while the breathing may be stridulous. Derivatives ˈstridulously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adverb] > harsh and shrill stridulously1831 stridently1859 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 317 The old dotard..is heard feebly and stridulously proclaiming, ‘Take notice! I will’ [etc.]. ˈstridulousness n. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Stridulousness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.?1611 |
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