onomatopoietical
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]onomatopoietical (comparative more onomatopoietical, superlative most onomatopoietical)
- Alternative form of onomatopoetic
- 1907, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 42, page 184:
- The word may be onomatopoietical for a sneezing or hacking cough, and if our object were a complete study of the Aconite Cough, it would behoove us to leave no stone unturned to learn precisely what Hahnemann meant.
- 1968, Joseph Strelka, Yearbook of Comparative Criticism - Volume 1, page 86:
- To this phase belong imitations of sound and sound-metaphors of the different onomatopoietical types.