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Stentor   /stˈɛntər/   Listen
Stentor

noun
1.
A speaker with an unusually loud voice.
2.
The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.
3.
Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor.



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"Stentor" Quotes from Famous Books



... pinions waft the dove away 925 They sought the Grecians, ardent to begin: Arriving where the mightiest and the most Compass'd equestrian Diomede around, In aspect lion-like, or like wild boars Of matchless force, there white-arm'd Juno stood, 930 And in the form of Stentor for his voice Of brass renown'd, audible as the roar Of fifty throats, the Grecians thus harangued. Oh shame, shame, shame! Argives in form alone, Beautiful but dishonorable race! 935 While yet divine Achilles ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... safely set up and the bellows placed in position, Ruby went to the edge of the platform, and, looking down on his comrades below, took off his cap and shouted in the tone of a Stentor, "Now, lads, three cheers for ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne

... your hands upon an onprotected female, you varmint, you!" said she, and, going to the door, she screamed "Jerry" three times, with a voice that would have done honor to a Stentor. ...
— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton

... senses and the human memory. The territory of a State must be 'visible as a whole' by one eye, and the assembly attended by all the full citizens must be able to hear one voice—which must be that of an actual man and not of the legendary Stentor. The governing officials must be able to remember the faces and characters of all their fellow citizens.[96] He did not ignore the fact that nearly all the world's surface as he knew it was occupied by States enormously larger than his rule allowed. But he denied that ...
— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas

... the voice of a stentor, and he accompanied this Muscovite exclamation by throwing into the ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue

... seems to hesitate between the two forms, and to ask herself if she shall make a society or an individual. The slightest push is enough, then, to make the balance weigh on one side or the other. If we take an infusorian sufficiently large, such as the Stentor, and cut it into two halves each containing a part of the nucleus, each of the two halves will generate an independent Stentor; but if we divide it incompletely, so that a protoplasmic communication is left between the two halves, ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... zealous Churchmen who both by word and example endeavoured to give a more hearty character to the public worship, and who thought that such 'unconcerned silence[1129] was a much greater evil than the risk of an occasional 'Stentor who bellowed terribly loud in the responses.'[1130] Most people are familiar with the paper in the 'Spectator,' which describes Sir Roger de Coverley at church, and his patriarchal care that his tenants and dependents ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton



Words linked to "Stentor" :   speaker, utterer, ciliated protozoan, verbaliser, stentorian, verbalizer, ciliophoran, ciliate, mythical being, genus Stentor, talker, Greek mythology



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