Meaning of onomatopoietical | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“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.”

“To this phase belong imitations of sound and sound-metaphors of the different onomatopoietical types.”

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