Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agreeing in sound; symphonious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Agreeing in sound; symphonious.
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- adjective archaic
concordant insound ;symphonious
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is in blank-verse; which however differs from the most regular rhyming ten-syllable verse in nothing but the lack of consonous endings.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Henry II., in his breeding of hounds, is said to have been careful not only that they should be fleet, but also 'well-tongued and consonous;' the same care in Elizabeth's time is, in the passage quoted by the Spectator, attributed by Shakespeare to Duke Theseus; and the paper itself shows that care was taken to match the voices of a pack in the reign also of Queen Anne.
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Henry II, in his breeding of hounds, is said to have been careful not only that they should be fleet, but also 'well-tongued and consonous;' the same care in Elizabeth's time is, in the passage quoted by the
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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It is in blank-verse; which however differs from the most regular rhyming ten-syllable verse in nothing but the lack of consonous endings. ”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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