unisonous

English

Etymology

unison +‎ -ous

Adjective

unisonous (comparative more unisonous, superlative most unisonous)

  1. Being in unison; unisonant.
    • 1860, Lowell Mason, ‎Edwards Amasa Park, ‎Austin Phelps, The Sabbath hymn and tune book (page iii)
      Hitherto all the singing in the American churches had been unisonous, the melody only having been sung; but in 1720 a book of tunes in threo parts, "Cantus," "Medius" and "Basus," was published by Rev. Thomas Walter.

Translations
unisonant — see unisonant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unisonous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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