a. rare–0. [f. Gr. ἄφων-ος voiceless (see next) + -OUS.] Voiceless.
1852. Roget, Thesaurus, 581. Aphonous, dumb, mute.
1893. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 29 Jan., 5/4. They [children] … try the top of their voices to see that they have not become aphonous with the low recitations and the observance of the rules of silence.
