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stridulous, a.|ˈstrɪdjʊləs|
[f. L. strīdul-us (f. strīd-ē̆re: see strident a.) + -ous.]
1. Emitting or producing a shrill grating sound.
1611Chapman Iliad 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. a1634Bp. Hall Serm. Beauty & Unity Ch. Wks. II. 369 The Church then is a Dove.., not a stridulous Jay. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. 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. 1819H. Busk Vestriad iv. 767 Stridulous guitar with wiry twang. 1864G. A. Lawrence Maurice Dering II. 32 That..stridulous young person, who..screams when she talks, and squalls when she sings. 1878Longfellow 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.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 95 A small and stridulous noyse. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes 153 A feeble stridulous sound. 1779G. White Selborne ii. xlvi. To Barrington (1789) 252 The shrilling of the field⁓cricket, though sharp and stridulous,..marvellously delights some hearers. 1790Cowper Iliad ii. 268 In piercing accents stridulous. 1873Morley Rousseau I. 229 Rousseau..sought new life away from the stridulous hum of men.
3. Path. Pertaining to or affected with stridor.
1822–29Good Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 609 Laryngismus stridulus. Stridulous constriction of the larynx. 1877F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 360 More or less dyspnoea is usually felt, while the breathing may be stridulous.
Hence ˈstridulously adv.; ˈstridulousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Stridulousness. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 317 The old dotard..is heard feebly and stridulously proclaiming, ‘Take notice! I will’ [etc.]. |