Posted on 10/16/2002 5:02:24 AM PDT by RikaStrom
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-un\, adjective:
1. Extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice.
2. Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
3. Use of the voice.
Around his family, Sergeant Charles Mingus Sr. was easily angered and often violent and closemouthed the rest of the time, except when he gave orders in a stentorian voice that carried the assumption of command.
--Gene Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Etymology: Stentorian comes from Stentor, a Greek herald in the Trojan War. According to Homer's Iliad, his voice was as loud as that of fifty men combined. Date: 1605
I thought I had saved it in my "favorites" section of the computer. Can't find it there, either.
Well, eventually you will find it.
I'll be in class tomorrow....you quidnunc.
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Isn't it past your bedtime?
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