streperous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin streperus, from strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.
Adjective edit
streperous (comparative more streperous, superlative most streperous)
- (archaic) loud; boisterous
- 1617, Francis Bacon, letter to the King:
- streperous carriage
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- And though Porta conceive, becauſe in a ſtreperous eruption, it riſeth against fire it doth therefore reſiſt lightning, yet is that no emboldning Illation
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “streperous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)