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sonant
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His rich, dulcet tones made him a star of Princeton’s sonant circuit.
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.
Surdimū′tism, the condition of being deaf and dumb; Surd′ity, want of sonant quality.
Sonant, sō′nant, adj. sounding: pertaining to sound: uttered with sound, instead of breath alone, as certain alphabetic sounds.—ns.
On one side is a crown in faint relief, under that a bell in large proportion, and on it impressed in italics:— Campane Sonant canore.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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