Stentorian

Stentorian (comparative more Stentorian, superlative most Stentorian)

1. Rare form of stentorian.
   • 1771 April, A Candidate Doctor of Oddities [pseudonym], “To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton, Jun^r. […], →OCLC, page 202, column 1:

     Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.

   • 1817, S[amuel] S[tanhope] Smith et al., “Battle of Queenstown; Cannonading from Erie to Ontario; […]”, in David Ramsay, S. S. Smith, et al., History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the Year 1808, […] Continued to the Treaty of Ghent, […], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] M[athew] Carey, […], →OCLC, page 204:

     Lieut. Col. [Charles] Bœrstler, exerting a Stentorian voice, roared in various directions as though he commanded thousands, and created such a panic in the enemy, that they fled before him whereever he moved.

   • 1766, “The History Returns to Charles. He Is Introduced to a Numerous Company. […]”, in The Wanderer: or, Memoirs of Charles Searle, Esq; […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Lowndes, […], →OCLC, pages 216–217:

     But Ramble, who was remarkable for his Stentorian faculties, riſing, put an end to the diſpute, by roaring out the burleſque on the Attic Fire, in a voice Stentor himſelf need not have been aſhamed to own.

   • 1887–1896, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, edited by Robert Ricatte, Journal : Mémoires de la vie littéraire 1887–1896, volume 16 (overall work in French), Monaco: Editions de l’Imprimerie nationale de Monaco, published 1956–1958, →OCLC, page 31:

     Applying the law of the case to our present argument, the section to be interpreted overrides in Stentorian voice, any contentions to the contrary.

   • 1994, Hamilton Crane [pseudonym; Sarah J. Mason], chapter 32, in Miss Seeton Undercover (Miss Seeton; 17), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 256:

     And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.

   • 2000, James B. Cash, “Preamble: I. Genesis”, in Playing Through (Pronounced Thruff) the Rough (Pronounced Ruff): An Irrelevant History of Golf(e), Sort Of; or, Scotland, Shakespeare, and Golf(e), Kettering, Oh.: Carney, Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7:

     The Stentorian voice spoke out again: I said, LET THERE BE GOLF!