rare. [f. L. son-āre to sound (see -ATION), or ad. med.L. sonātio (Albertus Magnus).] The action of sounding; the faculty of producing sound.
1655. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1687), 382/1. The act of the object, and the act of the sense it self, as Sonation and Audition, are really the same.
1846. Sir W. Hamilton, Reid’s Wks., Note D, 828. The actual hearing and the actual sounding…. Of these the one may be called audition, the other sonation.
