Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thundering from on high; high-thundering.
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V.M. as "Mère et Fille de _l'aliltonât_ [ant] plasmateur" into "_altitonant_" ( "loud-thundering"), while _plasmateur_ itself, though perfectly intelligible and legitimate, a favourite with the _rhétoriqueurs_, and borrowed from them even in Middle Scots, is not exactly everybody's word.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
johnmperry commented on the word altitonant
Thunderous voice
June 17, 2008