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reˈverberated, ppl. a.
[f. the verb + -ed.]
1. Driven or forced back; re-echoed, reflected, etc.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 98 The Northern winds..resist the current, and force the reuerberated streames to retire. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. xix. 288 A stone so fixed, that it will sustaine the violence of reverberated fire. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. 19 The Sounds made by those Bodies..or their reverberated Eccho's. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 517 Reverberated pleasures fire the breast. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 112 The reverberated perpendicular..collects on the antheræ of the flowers an arch of light. 1832Brewster Nat. Magic vii. 158 The reverberated sounds arising from the mere opening and shutting of the doors themselves. 1896Howells Impress. & Exp. 205 The tables..showed their reverberated labyrinth in the mirrors..at either end of the hall.
†2. Subjected to reverberation; treated in a reverberatory furnace. Obs.
1650French tr. Paracelsus' Nat. Things i. 12 The quintessence of Sulphur, which is extracted out of reverberated Sulphur. 1651― Distill. v. 118 Pour it upon the reverberated earth. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 369/2 By subliming the Sal-Armoniack from the Reverberated Crocus Martis.
†b. Reverberatory. Obs. rare—1.
1678Lett. Patent to Visc. Grandison No. 206 To melt and refine lead oare in close or reverberated furnaces. |