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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A noise: noting any sound heard on auscultation of the chest.
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Carruthers describes this term as an "attitude of mind which vexes or 'worries' [as a dog worries a bone] the emotions and the sensations in order to engage in the activity of making, storing, recalling memory images, to the exclusion of outside strepitus [confusion, noise] and bustle even when it is going on immediately around one."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Interdiu quidem collum vinctum est, et manus constricta, noctuvero totum corpus vincitur, ad has miserias accidit corporis faetor, strepitus ejulantium, somni brevitas, haec omnia plane molesta et intolerabilia.
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Ventres hisce aridi, somnus plerumque parcus et interruptus, somnia absurdissima, turbulenta, corporis tremor, capitis gravedo, strepitus circa aures et visiones ante oculos, ad venerem prodigi.
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Emmy had passed blushing through the room anon, where all sorts of people were collected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrods and meat; idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables; tumblers refreshing during the cessation of their performances — in a word, all the fumum and strepitus of
Vanity Fair 2006
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Vnde ver� foramen vel fenestra illa montana, per quam clamores, strepitus & tumultus apud antipodes, peri鎐os & ant鎐os factos exaudiremus?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vnde verò foramen vel fenestra illa montana, per quam clamores, strepitus & tumultus apud antipodes, periæcos & antæcos factos exaudiremus?
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III vii 35-36 'senectus/quae _strepitus passu non faciente_ uenit',
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Latin translation of Father Lacharme: "Fallor, non cantavit gallus, sed muscarum fuit strepitus," _ibid. _, p. 70.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, eo acerrime niti, [319] neque alius in alio magis quam in sese [320] spem habere: pariterque oppidani agere; oppugnare aut parare omnibus locis, avidius alteri alteros sauciare quam semet tegere, clamor permixtus hortatione, laetitia, gemitu, item strepitus armorum ad coelum ferri, tela utrimque volare.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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'I was not armed by nature and education,' he writes, 'with the intrepid energy of mind and voice Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
qms commented on the word strepitus
Preserve me from neighbors obstreperous,
And night squalls appallingly crepitous.
My sleep, so hard won,
Must not be undone
By any disturbance or strepitus.
May 7, 2016
Poorjharrison commented on the word strepitus
In latin it meant wild-noise, I've thought of this word as being very similar to ambient noise with the primary difference being that strepitus is heard only when listening, while ambient noise can exist whether or not someone pays attention to it.
May 14, 2016