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Definition of Mellisonant
1. Adjective. Pleasing to the ear. "The dulcet tones of the cello"
Similar to: Melodic, Melodious, Musical
Derivative terms: Sweetness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellisonant
Literary usage of Mellisonant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"Now hang the hallowed bell about his neck, We call it a mellisonant Tingle-Tangle.
(Indeed a sheep-bell stol'n from's own fat weather) [Aside. ..."
2. Wit and Humour: Selected from the English Poets ; with an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1846)
"... bell about his neck ; We call it a mellisonant tingle-tangle, (Anide). (A
sheep-bell stolen from his own fat wether) The ensign of his knighthood. ..."
3. Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1890)
"Now hang the hallow'd bell about Ids neck; We call it a mellisonant
tingle-tangle, (Aside). (A sheep-bell stolen from his own fat wether) The ensign
of his ..."
4. Studies in Prose and Poetry: By Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1897)
"It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and ' mellisonant' monotony
that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural ..."
5. Recreations of a Physician by Adam Stuart Muir Chisholm (1914)
"... and strategic title of " General, " which, Hke a splash of blood upon a cherub's
face, disfigures the mellisonant name of Feux Agnus (Happy Lamb)? ..."
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