a. [ad. L. strepitant-em, pr. pple. of strepitāre: see next.] Making a great noise, noisy.
1855. Browning, Master Hugues, xvi. Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive; Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant.
1861. F. Hall, in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 209. A hue as of the smoke associated with the fire of the poison of strepitant snakes.
Hence Strepitantly adv., boisterously.
1913. Engl. Rev., Oct., 465. The autumn season has begun strepitantly.
