sonant

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Dr. Gutheil cautions that no accurate explanation is apt to be simple: more likely in Hinckley's mind was a dis sonant snarl of emotions and delusions, which in concert led him to Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surdimū′tism, the condition of being deaf and dumb; Surd′ity, want of sonant quality.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

But no physiological or psychological explanation of consonance is given by this fact, for the simple reason that in the acoustic nerve-process nothing corresponding to the periodicity of the sonant stimulus is discoverable.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

Far to the right lay what had once been called /horresco referens/ the duckpond, where—"Dulce sonant tenui gutture carmen aves."

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Non planctus, non moesta sonant suspiria; pectus Singultans mulcet, lachrymantes tergit ocellos.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel