a. Obs. [f. med.L. streper-us (f. strepĕre to make a noise) + -OUS. Cf. OBSTREPEROUS.] Noisy, harsh-sounding.

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1637.  Heywood, Lond. Spec., B 3 b. Triton with his pearly trumpets blew A streperous blast. Ibid. (1637), Dial., i. 7. He … with a voice strep’rous and loud (That all they in the ship might heare him) vow’d To set before that Saint a waxen Light.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. vi. 100. In a streperous eruption it [the bay-tree] riseth against Fire.

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1688.  Cudworth, Immut. Mor. (1731), 182. The streperous Noise of a Single Fiddle.

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1822.  T. Taylor, Apuleius, II. 39. Scarcely had the streperous song of the crested cohort proclaimed a truce to night.

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  Hence † Streperously adv., † Streperousness.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Streperousness, Noisiness.

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1822.  T. Taylor, Apuleius, IV. 72. They play clamorously, they sing streperously.

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