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sonorous, a.|səˈnɔərəs, ˈsɒnərəs|
[f. L. sonōr-us, f. sonor, sonōris, sound: see -ous.]
1. a. Of things: Giving out, or capable of giving out, a sound, esp. of a deep or ringing character.
1611Cotgr., Sonoreux, sonorous, lowd, shrill, roring. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sonorous, loud; making a great noise, shril, roaring. 1667Milton P.L. i. 540 Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 214 Sonorous thro' the shaded air it sings. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1. 425 The simple Sounds of all uniform sonorous Bodies. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 410 The steel ores are mostly very hard, the masses being frequently sonorous. 1823Scoresby Jrnl. 44 Washed linen became hard and sonorous. 1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 11 Instruments consisting of a series of pieces of sonorous wood. 1881A. G. Bell Sound by Radiant Energy 1 Substances which became sonorous in the condition of thin diaphragms. 1934G. B. Shaw Let. in Times 2 Jan. 11/5 An announcer who pronounced decadent and sonorous as dekkadent and sonnerus would provoke Providence to strike him dumb.
b. Of places, etc.: Resounding, roaring, noisy.
1729G. Adams tr. Sophocl., Antig. iv. ii. II. 64 Upon famous Parnassus, or the sonorous Shore. 1796Owen Trav. into Europe II. 425 The river was extremely violent and sonorous. 1841Thoreau Lett. (1865) 6 What with..the lowing of kine, and the crowing of cocks, our Concord life is sonorous enough.
2. a. Of sounds: Having a loud, deep, or resonant character.
1668Wilkins Real Char. iii. xii. 367 To the Sonorous letters of this kind, there are three Mutes of affinity. 1691Ray N. Co. Words (ed. 2) 158 That these three last mentioned are simple Letters..appears in that the sound of them (for they are sonorous) may be continued. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 90 It..makes the voice sonorous. 1791Cowper Iliad x. 162 Nestor, brave Gerenian, with a voice Sonorous. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. II. 56 Giving his niece one of those sonorous salutes, which..at least sound genuine. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, His own sonorous utterance of the responses. 1879S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. xi. 241 The first sound that welcomed us was his sonorous bray.
b. Path. Of sounds heard in auscultation.
1827J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (1834) 109 The respiration was strong, and accompanied by a deep sonorous rhonchus. 1853Markham Skoda's Auscult. 276 Bronchial respiration,..or the hissing and sonorous sounds, may be very distinct. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 388 The deeper notes are usually termed ‘sonorous’, the acuter notes ‘sibilant’.
c. Physics. Of vibrations or waves.
1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 293 In the same manner as sonorous vibrations convey the sensation of sound to the ear. 1863Tyndall Heat x. 281 The condensation and rarefaction constitute what is called a sonorous pulse or wave. 1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 13 The character of each tone depends not merely upon the number of sonorous vibrations, but upon their intensity or amplitude also.
3. a. Of language, diction, etc.: Having a full, rich sound; strong and harmonious.
1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1726) p. lxxix, His Expressions are Sonorous and more Noble. 1705Addison Italy 99 For this reason the Italian Opera..has something beautiful and sonorous in the Expression. 1791Boswell Johnson (Oxford ed.) I. 180, I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 374 They had a sonorous and harmonious language, distinct from all others. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) II. 121 The word has been lately altered and made sonorous.
b. Of persons: having a full and rich style or voice.
1728Pope Dunc. ii. 247 But far o'er all, sonorous Blackmore's strain; Walls, steeples, skies, bray back to him again. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. vi, Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint-Antoine. |