a. Obs. [ad. L. altitonant-em, f. alti- high + tonant-em pr. pple. of tonā-re to thunder.] ‘Thundering from on high.’ Bailey, 1721.
a. 1627. Middleton, World Tossed, Wks. V. 175. Altitonant, Imperial crown’d, and thunder-armed Jove.
1641. Cowley, Guardian, II. i. Hear, thou altitonant Jove, and Muses three.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
