HORRISONANTADJ.
sounding horribly; making a terrible or dreadful sound ...1656 ETYMOLOGY from stem of Latin horrere to bristle + sonantem sounding from sonare to sound FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - from Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words, Thomas Blount, Horrisonant, roaring, having a terrible sound EXAMPLE "...A multiplicity of Horisonant Phrases." From: The British Apollo, 1708-11 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • An English Dictionary, Elisha Coles, 1717 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888 • Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
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