| 单词 | verberation |
| 释义 | verberation|vɜːbəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. verberātio, noun of action from verberāre: see prec. So F. verbération (13–14th cent.), Sp. verberacion, Pg. verberação.]
1. The action of beating or striking, or the fact of being struck, so as to produce sound; percussion.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xvi. vi. (1620) 547 Not admitting sound or verberation of aire. 1696Phillips s.v., The cause of sounds that proceed from the Verberation of the Air. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Sound..arises from a Verberation of the Air. 1865Sala Diary Amer. II. 131 Canada has often been declared..to be ‘knocking at the door of the Union’;..if Canada ever resorts to that method of verberation [etc.].
b. Reverberation of sound.
1855Singleton Virgil I. 186 Where The vaulted rocks with verberation ring.
†2. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1688Holme Armoury ii. 387/2 A Verberation, or Verberous feeling; a smarting pain, as when we are beaten with rods, whips, or scourges.
3. The action of beating or striking so as to cause pain or hurt; esp. flogging or scourging; also, a blow or stroke.
c1730Arbuthnot (J.), Redness and inflammation; all the effects of a soft press or verberation. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 120 The Cornelian law..prohibited pulsation as well as verberation; distinguishing verberation, which was accompanied with pain, from pulsation which was attended with none. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. 427 It is by the strong folds of the body, by the fierce verberations of the tail, that the enemy is destroyed. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Lazy little Boy, The anger, or..the verberations of his schoolmaster. 1879Daily Tel. 21 July, The beadle, alas! was armed with a different instrument of verberation. 1895Class. Rev. April 146/1 It is idle to translate ‘go on striking’, for the word is found repeatedly when the verberation had not yet started. |
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