a. Also 7–8 -ick; blundered forms 7 stentoreophonic, 7–8 stentrophonick, 8 stentonorophonic(k. [ad. mod.L. Stentorophōnicus (f. Gr. Στεντορόφωνος having the voice of a Stentor, f. Στεντορ- (Στέντωρ) + φωνή voice), in tuba Stentorophonica, the name given by Sir S. Morland to the speaking-trumpet invented by him (also called Stentorophonicon).]
† 1. Stentorophonic horn, trumpet, tube: a speaking trumpet. Obs.
[1671. Sir S. Morland (title), A description of the Tuba Stentoro-phonica.
1683–4. Phil. Trans., XIV. 481. For if the Stentoro-phonecon … does such great feats, what might be done [etc.].
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 96. He has Loud Trumpets made as big, and like our Stentoro-Phonica, or speaking Trumpet.]
1685. Phil. Trans., XV. 1185. He writes of … Stentoreophonic Tubes, the invention of which he justly ascribes to Sr Samuel Morland.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Walk round Lond., Quaker’s-Meeting (1709), 19. The spirit speaks in them, they are but the Stentonorophonic Tubes.
1710. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 257, ¶ 2. There was an Organ,… a Stentorophonick-Trumpet.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. iii. 130. Of this Stentorophonick Horn of Alexander, there is a Figure preserved in the Vatican.
1800. Vince, Hydrost., xi. (1806), 113. Sound is conveyed to the greatest distance by a trumpet, called a speaking or stentorophonic trumpet.
1803. Cavallo, Elem. Nat. Philos., II. 312. Hence arises the effect of the speaking trumpet, or stentorophonic tube.
1811–31. Bentham, Language, Wks. 1843, VIII. 313/2. 1. Instruments whereby increase is given to the diffusion of audible and evanescent signs:—1. Stentorophic [sic] tubes.
2. † Loud as a speaking-trumpet (obs.); in later use (echoed from Hudibras) = STENTORIAN a. 1.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. i. 252. I heard a Formidable Noise Loud as the Stentrophonick Voice, That Roar’d far off, Despatch and Strip.
1682. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 72 (1713), II. 193. I heard … a loud Stentorophonick Bawl, which presently was raised to a high Scream.
1704. D’Urfey, Hell beyond Hell, 72. Bawling with stentrophonick might.
1782. V. Knox, Ess., No. 164, ¶ 13. II. 324. A stentorophonic voice is the fundamental excellence of your Fine Man.
1822. T. L. Peacock, Maid Marian, xii. Little John read aloud with a stentorophonic voice.
So † Stentorophonical a. (in the same sense). † Stentorophonically adv.
1676. Shadwell, Virtuoso, II. 36. Sir Nic. After dinner we … will survey my Microscopes,… Stentrophonical Tubes, and the like.
1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxi. A fair White Cock … crowed Stentoriphonically loud.
