a. Obs.–1 [f. L. sonor, sonōris sound + -(I)FEROUS.] Conveying sound; soniferous. Also † Sonoriferously adv., resoundingly.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxiii. 193. Mars … did raise his Voice—horrifically loud, and sonoriferously high.
1730. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., I. xiii. § 3. When the Sonoriferous Air is come into the Cavity of the External Part of the Ear.
