onomatopoietically

English

Adverb

onomatopoietically (comparative more onomatopoietically, superlative most onomatopoietically)

1. Alternative form of onomatopoetically
   • 1985, Hans-Peter Stahl, Propertius: "love" and "war", page 184:

     He goes right on to prove it onomatopoietically by letting the strong- voiced or-sound appear five times in this one distich!

   • 1994, Terry Olivi, János S. Petöfi, Approaches to Poetry, page 204:

     The sound image series, however, may also function nonverbally, and, for instance, onomatopoietically, if the sibilants in 'Sun passes' are a snake's (temptation).

   • 2003, Susanne Gippert, Joseph Addison's Ovid:

     With Dumque dolet, Ovid makes a transition from the direct speech to the description of the gesture of mourning: the ripping of the robe as well as the beating of the breast, which is onomatopoietically underlined through the alliteration percussit pectora palmis.