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stentorious, a. rare.|stɛnˈtɔərɪəs| Also 6 -eous. [f. stentor2 + -ious.] = stentorian.
15..Becon Castle of Comfort Wks. 1560 II. 104 b, These Papistes, whych cease not wyth theyr stentoreous voyces to speke euyll of the true preachers of Gods worde. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 280 Will you haue them with a stentorious voyce to deliver an Oration ex tempore. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. xvii. 77 They will remember the loudness of his stentorious voice. Hence stenˈtoriously adv., stenˈtoriousness.
1656Fuller Notes Jonah i. 2. 11 [They] who change the strength of matter into stentoriousnesse of voice. 1685G. Sinclair Satan's Invis. World Postscr. ⁋5 A great multitude of People, Stentoriously laughing and Gapping with Tahies of laughter. 1882Fraser's Mag. XXV. 487 To whose convenient indefinity the porter stentoriously invites us. |