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

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

From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

After enumerating some probable and reasonable annoyances, such as prudent owners would wish far removed from their bee gardens, he adds—    . . . “aut ubi concava pulsu Saxa sonant, vocisque offensa resultat imago.”

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

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

We have already seen that there are two classes of consonant sounds, those which have a voice sound, as b, called sonant, and those which are mere breath sounds, like p, called surds or aspirates.

From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Cody, Sherwin