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▪ I. † reperˈcuss, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. repercussus, pa. pple. of repercutĕre: see next.]
Beaten upon.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 23 When the mone is daies oold xv And so not repercusse [L. repercussa] as of the sonne.
▪ II. repercuss, v.|riːpəˈkʌs|
[f. L. repercuss-, ppl. stem of repercutĕre, f. re- re- + percutĕre to percuss.]
1. a. trans. To beat or drive back (air, fluids, etc.). ? Obs.
1501,1615[see repercussed below]. 1626Bacon Sylva §118 Aire in Ovens, though (no doubt) it doth (as it were) boyle, and dilate it self, and is repercussed; yet it is without Noise. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 297 If the Winds blow directly downward, and..force the dust to arise with the Wind, which is repercussed by the Earth. 1696Salmon Fam. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v. Redness, To apply such things to the Eyes, as many repercuss and drive back the Humours offending. 1773J. Ross Fratricide vi. 389 (MS.), As when the frighted blood through every vein Drives to and fro, propell'd and repercuss'd, By the effluvia of electric fire.
fig.1601Holland Pliny xxiii. vii, The marrow or pith..doth repercusse and smite back the said disease, so that it shall not arise and grow. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 610 The said tempestuous rumours did strike and repercusse his thoughts inward.
†b. To reflect (beams or rays of light). Obs.
1604Stirling Aurora xxxvii, As the Sunne..darting from aboue, Doth parch all things that repercusse his beames. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xiii. 73 The Ray, repercussed or reflected in the perpendiculum is redoubled.
†c. To return, reverberate (a sound). Obs. rare.
a1585Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 89 And ay the echo repercust Hir diapason sound. 1626Bacon Sylva §245 Whether a Man shall heare better, if he stand aside the Body Repercussing. 1710[see repercussing].
†2. Of light: To beat upon (a thing). Obs. rare—1.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 48 As full of coulers as a Christall glasse, repercust and beaten against with the beames of the sunne.
3. [Back-formation from repercussion.] intr. To cause or admit of repercussions (sense 6 a, fig.); to have an unwanted or unintended effect; to reflect or rebound on something.
1923[see extra-organismal s.v. extra- 1]. 1969F. Halliday in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 323 There are also examples where an initially political campaign by students repercusses back into the campus and detonates an internal revolt within higher education. 1972Guardian 18 Feb. 13/1 The public crucifixion of a mandarin looks likely to repercuss for years. 1975J. De Bres tr. Mandel's Late Capitalism vii. 243 The tendency towards thorough planning and organization within the companies or enterprises of late capitalism necessarily repercusses on the structure of the bourgeois class. 1976Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 3/3 It is a script which the plaintiffs feel cannot do anything but repercuss poorly on their reputation if it is thought that ‘King Kong’ is associated with that.
Hence reperˈcussed, reperˈcussing ppl. adjs.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. iii, Of repercus[si]t air the echo cryis, Amang the branches of the blomed treis. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 247 The noise that is made by the repercussed waters. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xiii. 73 The repercussed Heat is sufficient for all Operations Natural to quicken and encourage them. 1710Brit. Apollo No. 9. 1/1 An Eccho..is caus'd by any..Repercussing Body stopping and reflecting the..Sound. |