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Symphonious adj.

Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious. "Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps."

(Mus.) Symphonic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Symphonious" Quotes from Famous Books

... little piece, called the Hermit, begins with a sweet strain, which always dwells on the ear, and which makes us expect that something equally sweet is to follow. This hermit too has his "harp symphonious." He makes the same complaint, and finds the same comfort for it, as Edwin had done in the first book of the Minstrel. Both are the Christian's comment on a well-known passage in the Idyllium of ...

— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary

... himself, and, in the same breath, caught it from his neighbor. Within the church, it had hardly been kept down; beneath the sky, it pealed upward to the zenith. There were human beings enough, and enough of highly wrought and symphonious feeling, to produce that more impressive sound than the organ tones of the blast, or the thunder, or the roar of the sea; even that mighty swell of many voices, blended into one great voice by the universal impulse which makes likewise one vast heart ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words linked to "Symphonious" : harmonious, symphonic