Definition of "altitonant"

And for that he singeth the psalmes in the church with such a jesticulus tone and altitonant voyce, viz.: squeaking like a gelded pigg — which doth not onlie interrupt the other voyces, but is altogether dissonant and disagreeing unto any musicall harmonie, and he hath bene requested by the minister to leave it, but he doth obstinatlie persist and contynue therein.

1874, Albany Law Journal - Volume 10, page 207

Hear, thou altitonant Jove, and Furies three.

2014, Abraham Cowley (A. R. Waller), Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses, page 176

Altitonant, Imperial-crown'd, and thunder-armed Jove, Unfold thy fiery veil, the flaming robe And superficies of thy better brightness;

1840, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, No wit, page 175

At last the Altitonant displaz me hiz mayn poour ; with blaz of burning darts, flying too and fro, learns of starz corruscant, streamz and hail of firie sparkes, lightninges of wildfier a-water and lond.

1597, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

The thunderstorm had stopped, the rain merely drizzled down and the aunt's boom had settled down from seemingly trying to equal the altitonant above even her considerable range by the time, a brief trip, the cabbie, his neat uniform sodden from sweating, drove up to the minicipal cemetery's entrance.

2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, page 209