a. rare. Also 6 -eous. [f. STENTOR2 + -IOUS.] = STENTORIAN.
15[?]. Becon, Castle of Comfort, Wks. 1560, II. 104 b. These Papistes, whych cease not wyth theyr stentoreous voyces to speke euyll of the true preachers of Gods worde.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 280. Will you haue them with a stentorious voyce to deliver an Oration ex tempore.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. xvii. 77. They will remember the loudness of his stentorious voice.
Hence Stentoriously adv., Stentoriousness.
1656. Fuller, Notes Jonah, i. 2. 11. [They] who change the strength of matter into stentoriousnesse of voice.
1685. G. Sinclair, Satan’s Invis. World, Postscr. ¶ 5. A great multitude of People, Stentoriously laughing and Gapping with Tahies of laughter.
1882. B. Burford Rawlings, in Fraser’s Mag., XXV. 487. The ominous ‘change’ to whose inconvenient indefinity the porter stentoriously invites us.
