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

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

In its weaving sonant patterns were the detonations of the primeval world he had left; and something strangely disquieting and feminine.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

D. Surgite: iam vendit pueris ientacula pistor, Cristataeque sonant undique lucis aves.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund