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Webster 1913 Edition


Stertorious

Ster-to′ri-ous

(stẽr-tō′rĭ-ŭs)
,
Adj.
Stertorous.
[R.]

Definition 2024


stertorious

stertorious

English

Adjective

stertorious (comparative more stertorious, superlative most stertorious)

  1. (obsolete) Stertorous.
    • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’:
      By this time his pulse was imperceptible and his breathing was stertorious, and at intervals of half a minute.