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repercussive, a. and n.|riːpəˈkʌsɪv|
Also 4 -if.
[ad. F. répercussif, -ive (14th c.): see repercuss v. and -ive.]
A. adj.
†1. Of medicines or medical applications: Serving to repel humours or reduce swellings. Obs. Cf. repellent a. 1.
c1400Lanfranc's Circurg. 210 To enpostyms of blood, þou miȝt do medicyns repercussifs & dissolutiuis sotilly. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. i. 14 The inconvenient and untimely application of medicines repercussive. 1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) III. 818 The flower thereof is good in repercussiue plaisters. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 29 The Greeks call a repercussive Medicament ἀποκρουστικὸν. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 673/1 Besides this, it is very drying, repercussive and anodyn.
2. a. Of sounds: Reverberating or reverberated; echoing, resounding; repeated.
1598B. Jonson Case is Altered i. ii, That word only Hath, with its strong and repercussive sound, Struck my heart cold. 1638[Shirley] Mart. Soldier iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 225 All the Goths and Vandalls shall strike Heaven with repercussive Ecchoes of your name. 1727–46Thomson Summer 1162 Amid Carnarvon's mountains rages loud The repercussive roar. 1809Mrs. J. West Mother (1810) 169 The woodland hind Strikes the firm oak with repercussive blows. 1875Swinburne Ess. & Stud. 201 note, I think now that the fantastic beauty of that single repercussive note would perhaps be out of tune.
b. Of things or places: Returning a sound.
1695Congreve Taking of Namur vi, The huge Cyclops did..Massie Bolts on repercussive Anvils beat. 1712Blackmore Creation vii. (ed. 2) 358 Ye noise Waves Strike with Applause the repercussive Caves. 1874Hartwig Aerial W. iv. 39 Echo no longer..confides her sorrows to the remote glen or the repercussive rock.
†3. Of light: Reflected. Obs.
1604Dekker King's Entert. Wks. 1873 I. 274 This (the glasse alone) Where the neat Sunne each morne himselfe attires, And gildes it with his repercussive fires. 1701Watts Horæ Lyr., Fun. Poem T. Gunston, As she labours up to reach her Noon, Pursues her Orb with repercussive Light.
transf.1598Chapman Iliad xviii. 192 Their guides a repercussive dread Took from the horrid radiance of his refulgent head. a1639T. Carew To H.D. 16 Shadowes to delude thine eyes With ayrie repercussive sorceries.
4. a. Of a blow: Causing to rebound. rare—1.
1712Blackmore Creation ii. (ed. 2) 69 What vig'rous Arm, What repercussive blow Bandies the mighty Globe still too and fro?
b. fig. Of an action, decision, etc.: having repercussions (sense 6 a).
1974Daily Tel. 11 May 17/5 He said that because of the decision to go ahead with the tour he was worried about the repercussive effect on British and international sport. 1975Financial Times 27 Oct. 17/4 Britain will in an important sense continue to be ‘reliant’ on other sources herself, since she cannot escape repercussive consequences in her own industry and economy whenever Western Europe suffers. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 554/2 The repercussive effects of pay policy.
†B. n. Med. A repellent. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 209 Þou must purge þe matere or þou leie þerto ony repercussijf or ony maturatif. 1547Boorde Brev. Health 75 If the mylke be curded in the brestes, some olde auctours wyll gyue repercussiues. 1601Holland Pliny II. 278 The herbe is..a singular repercussiue in all impostumes and inflammations. 1651French Distil. v. 135 A plate of the said Mercury laid upon tumours would be a great deale better repercussive then plates of lead, which Chirurgions use. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tumour, Repercussives are not used in all sorts of Tumours.
Hence reperˈcussively adv., reperˈcussiveness (Bailey, vol. II. 1727).
1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 874 It did shiver—repercussively broken back by gnarled oak. |