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vibrant, ppl. a.|ˈvaɪbrənt|
[ad. L. vibrant-, vibrans, pres. pple. of vibrāre to vibrate. Cf. F. vibrant, Sp., Pg., and It. vibrante.]
†1.
a. Agitated with anger or emotion. Obs.—1
c1550Rolland Crt. Venus i. 735 This is the case I haif to ȝow to mene, Quhilk in ane part to ȝow als dois pertene, As to my self, thocht I be mair vibrant.
†b. Moving or acting with rapidity or energy; stirring. Obs.—1
1616Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. xi. 295 Next came a stowt couragious vibrant knight, larglie proportiond, and as large of might.
†2. Her. Brandishing, flourishing. Obs.—1
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 97 b, P. beareth Gules and Sable,..a Lyon rampaunt d'Or, vibrante a sworde d'Argente.
3. a. Moving or quivering rapidly; vibrating.
1616Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. vi. 273 Theare, theare, three squares of vibrant pikes out glides. Ibid. viii. 222 Till pikes, and pikes,..sidewise, and foreright, vibrant thrustes in strikes. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 239 While Phœbus down the vertic' circle glides: He, o'er th' horizon, vibrant seems to swim, And, tangent, sweeps it with his nether limb. 1817W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLIII. 236 His voice of song..Thro' their crystalline caves the vibrant billows bear. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1861) 136 She danced with a kind of passionate fierceness,..her round arms wreathing and unwinding, alive and vibrant to the tips of the slender fingers. 1876Dowden Poems 22 A vibrant tongue Had in a moment pricked upon my brow The mystic mark.
transf.1858W. Cory Ionica 87 That vibrant hearts of ours repeat What they with him were wont to feel.
b. Vibrating or thrilling with something.
1867Bailey Universal Hymn 8 Ye orbs,..Even the nebulous star,..with fearful joy Vibrant, conclude God is. 1883Cent. Mag. Oct. 828/2 The greatest of commercial communities,..so stirring and vibrant with commerce and speculation. 1895Zangwill Master ii. vii. 213 The wonderful city..vibrant with the swirl of perpetual currents of traffic.
4. Of sound: Characterized by, exhibiting, vibration; resonant.
1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 204 While yet these words were vibrant on my tongue. 1874Howells Foregone Concl. viii, The vibrant accents of Chiozza. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 117 The speaker paused a moment, his low vibrant tones faltering into silence.
Hence ˈvibrantly adv.
1926Record Home & Mission Wk. United Free Church of Scotland July 316/1 The Christian Church should make its protest vibrantly felt. 1976Gramophone Mar. 1481/1 The warm, vibrantly sympathetic recording acoustic makes no little contribution.
Add:[3.] c. Without const. Full of vitality, teeming, vigorous; exuberant, flourishing.
a1929V. L. Parrington in Webster (1961) s.v., Hungry for ideas, intellectually and emotionally vibrant. 1966Listener 9 June 831/1 It is this situation, doubtless, which leads the new ‘campaigns’, in a ‘boom period’, to call for a ‘vibrant, hard-hitting approach’, and for [etc.]. 1971[see mind-set s.v. mind n. 21 b]. 1979J. Oates Unholy Loves (1980) ii. 123 She had fallen in love with Alexis, because he was so vibrant, so attractive. 1987Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May 576/4 Ireland..is not the misty isle of ‘saints and scholars’, with its treasured spirituality, and its vibrant and prized Catholicism.
[4.] b. transf. Of a colour: vivid, exotic. Also applied to other visual attributes, and to objects with an appearance suggestive in some way of vitality or the exotic.
1971[see jazzy a.]. 1983Country Life 31 Mar. 828/2 An unknown world under the sea where the light plays on vibrant corals, tropical pinks and flamboyant ochres. 1985Oxford Mail 25 Feb. 10/6 The range combines the ideals of a vibrant porcelain-enamelled exterior with a hard-wearing, easy-clean Teflon II non-stick interior. |