unisonousadj.

1664 J. Birchensha tr. J. H. Alsted Templum Musicum x. 90 The Canon, Mother, and Radix of all Instruments, is the Monochord: which is an Instrument most simple, and intire, made of one or more unisonous Chords [L. vnisonis..chordis].

1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. 171 These apt notes [to sing the Psalms with] were about forty tunes, of one part only, and in one unisonous key.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 389 Nothing now but syllabic and unisonous psalmody was authorised in the Church.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 65 The Psalms being set to simple or unisonous melodies, to render them fit for public service.

1867 Contemp. Rev. 4 190 Their deadness took the form of a drawling unisonous singing of the old tunes.

1894 Times 11 June 9/5 The player's left hand..was audibly less at home than the right in the unisonous finale.

1919 C. A. Harris Brit. Music 130 The Fathers of the Genevan School prohibited all worship-music except unisonous psalm-tunes.

2004 Internat. Rev. Aesthetics & Sociol. Music 35 72 Unisonous lullabies, laments, and pastoral songs originate from polyphonic ones.

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xliv. 464 How ought ye..to have your lives, words, and works unisonous, full of harmony and concent?

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 29 Jan. (1964) I. 245 Minds unisonous in reason and feeling.

1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. xii. 415 The patriots are uniform, methodical in their transactions, unisonous in their demands.

1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 34 The voice of the Homeric poems is in this respect..unisonous,..and not multiform.

1903 C. S. Terry Young Pretender ii. 28 James turned his back upon Rome and its unisonous chorus of condemnation.

1976 G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. II. x. 332 The unisonous harping upon this vein would deserve to be criticized in the same way.

2011 Early Times (India) (Nexis) 13 Oct. No person like Shanti Bhushan can raise any dispute which is settled by parliament of India by unisonous resolution.