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vibratiuncle|vaɪbreɪʃɪˈʌŋk(ə)l|
[ad. mod.L. vibratiuncula, dim. of L. vibrātio vibration.]
A minute or slight vibration. Cf. vibration 3 c.
1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §2. 58 Diminutive Vibrations, which may also be called Vibratiuncles and Miniatures. Ibid. 101 Concerning the Derivation of ideal Vibratiuncles from sensory Vibrations. 1764Reid Inquiry ii. §3 Our sensations arise from vibrations and our ideas from vibratiuncles or miniature vibrations. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. IV. 156 Do you take the soul to be an Eolus's harp, and all the fine things in it, to be vibratiuncles? 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 244 Their hearing or analogous sense is much nicer than ours, collecting the slightest vibratiuncle imparted by other insects, &c. to the air. 1857Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. IV. viii. §43. 478 Through what vibrations or vibratiuncles that conviction came to him we do not care to enquire.
So viˌbratiuncuˈlation, a vibratiuncle.
1855Coues Dæmon of Darwin 58 (Cent.). |