repercussionn.

Brit.

/ˌriːpəˈkʌʃn/, U.S.

/ˌripərˈkəʃ(ə)n/,

/ˌrɛpərˈkəʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English repercucioun, late Middle English repercuscioun, late Middle English repercussione, late Middle English (1500s Scottish) repercussioun, late Middle English– repercussion, 1500s reparcussion, 1500s repercussyon, 1600s repurcussion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French repercussion; Latin repercussiōn-, repercussiō.

Etymology: < Middle French repercussion, repercucion, etc. (French répercussion ) action of driving a morbid humour inwards from a swollen or diseased part (c1300 in Old French), action of reflecting (light, heat, sounds, etc.) (first half of the 14th cent.), repulse or recoil of a thing after impact (1380) and its etymon classical Latin repercussiōn-, repercussiō reflection (of light), in post-classical Latin also recoil of a thing after impact (4th cent. in Augustine), action of driving away from a particular part of the body an unhealthy humour believed to be the cause of a swelling (1363 in Chauliac), (in music) dominant of the mode in which a psalm tone is written (1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense 3b), action of hitting back (in self-defence) (a1564 in a British source) < repercuss- , past participial stem of repercutere repercuss v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. In the semantic development in English influenced also by association with repercuss v. and percussion n. Compare slightly earlier repercussive adj., repercussive n.Compare Catalan repercussió (15th cent.), Spanish repercusión (15th cent.), Portuguese repercussão (15th cent.), Italian ripercussione (a1320).

a. Medicine. The action of driving a morbid humour, fluid, etc., back to its source or away or inwards from a swollen or diseased part; the action of suppressing an infection, swelling, eruption, etc.; an instance of this. Now rare or disused.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > dispersing, etc., of humours or morbid matter

resolvinga1398

attractiona1400

resolutiona1400

repercussion?a1425

eduction?c1425

discussion1583

repulsion1583

epicrasis1592

derivation1600

expurgation1615

attractation1616

incision1626

diversion1656

dispersion1753

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 167^v (MED) Among þe secunde operacionz cirurgicale, repercussioun is more necessarie, sith þat it defendeþ augmentyng of aposteme.

?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Rij^v The seconde [intention]..is fulfylled by repercussyon at the begynnynge.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 303 Mercurie..For repercussion thou win'st praise.

1663 J. Beale in R. Boyle Wks. (1772) VI. 372 I should prefer that method in agues before any violent repercussions, though it were the famous febrifuga called Jesuit's bark.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xlii. 93 The proper..Nourishment of the Similary Parts is done by..Repercussion not by Attraction.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Tumour The other [method] is to stop and repel 'em; which is call'd Repercussion, that sends 'em back to their Source.

1769 G. Arnaud Plain Method curing Disorders Bladder (ed. 3) xiv. 204 The sudden repercussion of the venereal virus into the blood..is affected by this fatal practice.

1868 E. Wilson Dis. Skin (ed. 7) v. 187 He likewise expresses an old-fashioned dread of repercussion of the eruption from exposure to cold draughts of air.

1922 B. C. Woodbury Homoeopathic Materia Medica Nurses (ed. 2) iv. 90 Repercussion of eruption.

†b. gen. The action or power of driving back an advancing force or body. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > repelling an impinging or advancing body

repercussionc1540

repike1687

c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cvj This goume is generat of see froith, quhilk is cassin vp be continewal repercussion of craggis aganis the see wallis.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 11 The vapor thereof by repercussion, forceth them [sc. the planets] to be evidently retrograde, and goe backward [L. et retroire cogit vapore percussas].

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 3 A man cannot fasten..any maine stroke and visible vpon soft and yeelding bodies, in that they haue no repercussion.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §17 Because of the repercussion of other Atoms..they receive such knocks as make them quiet in their places.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 172 They various Ways recoil, and swiftly flow By mutual Repercussions to and fro.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 77 From the opposition it must have met in these mountainous tracts, and the repercussion of their craggy sides, eddies must have been formed.

1835 T. Irving Conq. Florida II. xxxvi. 270 On their left lay a large island, formed by vast quantities of drift-wood swept down the river, and piled up by the repercussion of the waters from the sea.

†c. The forcing back of flame by blowing against it. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.Only in the writings of Bishop Joseph Hall.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > repelling an impinging or advancing body > specific flame

repercussion1628

1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. ii. i. 9 Like as the repercussion of the flame intends it more.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxii O God, if thy bellowes did not sometimes thus breath vpon mee, in spirituall repercussions.

†2.

a. Repulse or recoil of a thing after impact; an instance of this. Also: the fact of being driven back by a resisting force or body. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > impact > rebound > [noun]

reboundinga1382

reverberationc1405

rebound1440

stot1513

repercussion1553

recoil1583

resilience1626

reflection1642

refraction1653

resilition1654

backstroke1674

retro-spring1716

ricochet1740

dap1835

bounce1884

spring-back1899

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 174^v The streame..apering by the reparcussion of the water in many places to be ful of great stones in the bottome [L. occultaque saxa inesse ostendebant pluribus locis undae repercussae].

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G^v That (with the repurcussion of the Ayre) Shooke the great Eagle sitting in his Chayre.

1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5148 The other Secondary Affections of Winds; as their Undulation, Repercussion from Promontories, Opposition, &c.

1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 205 After much thunder and roaring by the allision and repercussion of the flame against and from the sides of the Caverns.

1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 371 The waters are violently carried against the rocks: and in their repercussion, form dangerous whirlpools.

1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. (1805) VII. 11 By the repercussion bursting out with redoubled force.

1827 A. Vieyra & J. P. Aillaud Dict. Portuguese & Eng. Lang. (new ed.) Resalto,..the repercussion of a body, or rebound.

1857 E. J. Lewis Amer. Sportsman 427 There was neither a heavy breech nor long stock to ward off or receive the repercussion in those guns, and the whole force of the explosion consequently was transmitted immediately to the timber to which they were all attached.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete.

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1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. xiii. §3 This certainty can never be wrought but by a repercussion of the engraffed notion upon itself.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiii. 75 A mighty wall As Diamond Solid, where all Sence must fall With repercussion.

1869 J. D. Baldwin Pre-hist. Nations (1877) iv. 138 Their action..has entered the current of European affairs indirectly only, and by repercussion.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) 79 The injury done her cousin, which by the repercussion of its shock..serves to transfigure..the whole bright light nature of Beatrice.

c. Medicine. = ballottement n. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > specific methods of diagnosis > of pregnancy

ballottement1830

repercussion1834

ballotting1856

1834 G. O. Heming tr. M. A. V. Boivin & A. Dugès Pract. Treat. Dis. Uterus i. iv. 140 The absence of repercussion [Fr. ballottement (toucher vaginal)], of the movements of the fœtus, and of the pulsations of the fœtal heart, will prove the non-existence of pregnancy.

1844 G. O. Heming in Lancet 22 June 410/2 I believe I first pointed out this mode of examination in my translation of the work of Madame Boivin, ‘On Diseases of the Uterus’, and suggested that it should be called hypogastric repercussion.

1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy ii. 94 Ballottement, or repercussion, is a valuable means of acquiring information as to the existence of pregnancy.

1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) vii. 39 Feeling ballotement or repercussion, hearing the fœtal movements.

a. Originally: reflection of a sound; echo, reverberation; an instance of this; (now rare). In later use: (in plural) recurring sounds or vibrations.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > reverberation or echo

echo1340

repercussion1554

rebound1567

reverberation1569

reverberating1576

answer1609

re-echoing1611

re-echo1613

replicationa1616

back-echo1626

echoinga1649

reboation1648

redounda1665

aftersound1807

verberation1825

reverb1875

anacampsis1879

liveness1931

post-echo1956

1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 201 in Wks. (1931) I That all the roches rang, Throuch repercussioun of thare suggurit sang.

1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine iii. vi Where every echo's repercussion May help me to bewail mine overthrow.

1600 T. Lodge in Eng. Parnassus 198 Mans voyce in euery ones opinion, is but an airie repercussion.

1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ii. 4 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Let our Letters be as Eccho's, let them bound back and make mutuall repercussions.

1660 S. Pordage in tr. Seneca Troades Comm. 49 The repercussion of the air against some rock or hill, or some obvious body which repeats the dilated sound by reflection.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 119 To bridle the Evagation of the Sound..but..not to make a Confusion thereof, by any disagreeable Repercussions.

1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 95 This dreadful noise is prolonged by repercussions from the caverns of the mountains.

1855 J. H. Newman Callista (1856) xxvii. 240 Like the echo which is a repercussion of the original voice.

1911 E. Wharton Ethan Frome v. 102 The repetition of the name seemed to carry it to the farther corners of the room and send it back to them in long repercussions of sound.

1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 644/1 Its solemn clonk-clonk , interpenetrating the stately repercussions of the main engines, was rarely heard on that ship.

1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 116 The jumpy repercussions of the car on the roadway.

1995 USA Today (Nexis) 28 Apr. 4 a Flowers and Gessouroun headed to the roof after feeling the hospital towers shake from the repercussions of the blast.

b. Music. (a) The repetition of the subject of a fugue after the exposition; (b) the dominant of the mode in which a psalm tone is written (cf. reciting note n. at reciting n. Compounds).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > proper interval

repercussion1609

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > answer

reply1597

answer1737

response1765

comes1838

repercussion1872

risposta1876

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus i. iv. 12 The Repercussion [L. repercussio], which by Guido is called a Trope, and the proper and fit melodie of each Tone. Or it is the proper interuall of each Tone.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Of these three Chords the two Extremes, i. e. the final and the predominant one, (which are properly the Repercussion of each Mode) [beat] oftener than the middle one.

1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. §391 During the successive entries of the Subject and Answer, the other parts continue with counterpoints,..and this entry of all the parts constitutes the Exposition (or Repercussion), exhibiting the material of which the Fugue is to be formed.

1889 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 139/1 [Tonal Fugue] The alternation of the Subject with the Answer—called its Repercussion..—is governed by necessary, though somewhat elastic laws.

1976 Musical Q. 62 399 The mode at the very beginning of the work is also introduced by its repercussion interval.

1997 M. S. Lewis A. Gardano, Venetian Music Printer (2005) v. 50 The overall tonality of the work appears to be mode 5; C is both the repercussion of the mode, and one of the principal cadence points recognized by the theorists.

†4.

a. The action of an object or surface in reflecting the light or heat of the sun; an instance of this. Also figurative. Obsolete.Common in 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun]

reflectiona1398

reverberation?a1475

reflexity?c1500

reflex1508

repercussion1563

resultation1603

rebound1689

the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > as an action of light

reverberationa1475

repercussion1563

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 5^v The hyghest [region], because it is next to the region of ye fier, is exceading hoate, the lowest beinge next the earth and the waters, is temperat, and by repercussion or striking back of the sunne beames waxeth hoate.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xxv. 110 Certaine buttons..which with the repercussion and reverberation of the Sun-beames, doe shine againe like resplendent gold.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. xii. 95 That the rayes..may not..be returned..for such a repercussion would make the sight more confused.

1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. iv. 142 By Reflection and Repercussion of the Sun's Rays.

1727 ‘S. Brunt’ Voy. to Cacklogallinia 112 That it is a solid Body, is evident by the Repercussion of the Light which it receives from the Sun.

1765 Doctrinal Texts Brethren's Congregation 7 The Rays they are emitting, of the Sun's Element are but a Repercussion.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 40 Our love and electing of him [sc. God] is but the repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us.

1845 T. De Quincey On Wordsworth's Poetry in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 547/2 What would the sun be itself..if its glory were not endlessly..thrown back by atmospheric repercussions?

1866 Astron. Reg. July 185 The sun thus shining through it and causing a various refraction and repercussion of light, makes that splendour which we call the tail or tresses of a comet.

b. An image of something produced by reflection. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > reproducing an image > image produced by

imagec1350

umberc1407

idol1563

reflection1563

reflex1596

shadow-light1623

species1638

repercussion1646

reflect1829

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 58 As in a Christall, there is a perfect Repercussion of a Mans visage.

c. A coloration of an object resulting from the particular quality of the (reflected) light cast on it. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > matter > colour > [noun] > colour from reflected light

repercussion1665

surface colour1810

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 30 A number of Fish, whose glistering shells made that artificial light in the night, and gave the Sea a white repercussion.

†a. The return of a force or impact; an impact made in response to or as a consequence of another. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > [noun] > return action or operation

repercussion1603

reacting1611

recussion1754

reaction1771

reagency1793

reverberation1797

retroaction1799

response1887

snap-back1972

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]

proofc1330

worka1382

workinga1382

consequentc1386

effectc1390

processa1400

consequencec1400

sequel1477

efficacea1492

operation1525

branch1526

efficacy1549

trial1559

ensuing1561

repercussion1603

success1606

productiona1610

salutation1609

succeedinga1616

pursuancea1626

spawna1631

income1635

result1638

importance1645

consequency1651

product1651

causal1652

causate1656

consectary1659

propter hoc1671

inference1673

corollary1674

resultment1683

produce1698

recussion1754

development1803

suitea1806

eventuation1813

sequent1838

sequence1853

causatum1879

sequela1883

ramification1925

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > undesired or unintended consequence(s) or side-effect

repercussion1603

aftermath1671

ill effect1675

mal-effect1686

side effect1814

wrack1844

implication1873

backwash1876

katzenjammer1897

backlash1921

kickback1935

spillover1940

fallout1954

rub-off1962

booby prize1972

own goal1975

the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > returning a blow

repercussion1603

recussion1754

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 188 When our eies be sore..we turne away our sight unto those bodies and colours which make no reverberation or repercussion backe againe upon it.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 480 The law of repercussion and retalion tooke no place.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 611 The bones strike the Nerue,..The same Nerue makes a repercussion vpon the Membrane.

b. figurative. A return of any kind of action, a responsive act, a resulting effect or implication; an undesired or unintended consequence. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution

yieldinga1340

talion1412

retributiona1425

recompensec1425

recompensationa1513

requitement1548

retaliation1581

lex talionis1597

requital1597

retaling1597

taliationa1601

law of retalion1607

talio1611

retail1615

retorsion1637

repercussion1641

retributing1645

reddition1656

retortion1762

poetical justice1796

utu1828

retort1836

quits1865

poetic justice1991

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 92 The subject whereon shee had to worke being hard and apt to resist, made her subject to repercussions.

a1684 R. Leighton Theol. & Expos. Lect. (1828) 148 Observing of others, to improve the good and the evil we see in them..,looking on them to make the repercussion the stronger on ourselves.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 148. ⁋5 Tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the..repercussion of communicated pleasure.

1831 C. Lamb in Englishman's Mag. Aug. 555 Natural re-percussions, and results to be expected from the assumed extravagances of..mock life.

1906 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Jan. 1 The disasters of Tsardom in the Japanese war have had a repercussion all over Europe.

1935 Times 5 July 15/3 The direct effects and indirect repercussions of any projected action.

1948 Hansard Commons 26 Jan. 673 All practical measures will be adopted..to minimise repercussions upon other unconvertible European currencies.

1969 T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. ii. 85 The inclusion of that fact in the Reformation doctrine of the Grace of God had immense repercussions.

2007 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 23 Nov. a10 I've known people to get behind the wheel after drinking—intelligent individuals who should understand the potentially catastrophic repercussions of their actions.

†6.

a. A repeated blow. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > repetition or exchange of blows > a repeated blow

repercussion1626

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. 244 Rhœtus..aggrauates his wound With repercussions of his burning brand [L. semicremoque novat repetitum stipite vulnus].

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. 96 He found his Face swell'd, and his Gumms so batter'd and bruised with the repercussions of his grinders, that he was not able to stirre his jawes.

b. A repeated attack of pain. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > repeated attack of

repercussion1796

1796 R. Burns Let. Apr. (2003) II. 378 I have only..counted Time by the repercussions of Pain!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repercussion
释义	repercussionn. Brit. /ˌriːpəˈkʌʃn/, U.S. /ˌripərˈkəʃ(ə)n/, /ˌrɛpərˈkəʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English repercucioun, late Middle English repercuscioun, late Middle English repercussione, late Middle English (1500s Scottish) repercussioun, late Middle English– repercussion, 1500s reparcussion, 1500s repercussyon, 1600s repurcussion. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French repercussion; Latin repercussiōn-, repercussiō. Etymology: < Middle French repercussion, repercucion, etc. (French répercussion ) action of driving a morbid humour inwards from a swollen or diseased part (c1300 in Old French), action of reflecting (light, heat, sounds, etc.) (first half of the 14th cent.), repulse or recoil of a thing after impact (1380) and its etymon classical Latin repercussiōn-, repercussiō reflection (of light), in post-classical Latin also recoil of a thing after impact (4th cent. in Augustine), action of driving away from a particular part of the body an unhealthy humour believed to be the cause of a swelling (1363 in Chauliac), (in music) dominant of the mode in which a psalm tone is written (1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense 3b), action of hitting back (in self-defence) (a1564 in a British source) < repercuss- , past participial stem of repercutere repercuss v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. In the semantic development in English influenced also by association with repercuss v. and percussion n. Compare slightly earlier repercussive adj., repercussive n.Compare Catalan repercussió (15th cent.), Spanish repercusión (15th cent.), Portuguese repercussão (15th cent.), Italian ripercussione (a1320). 1. a. Medicine. The action of driving a morbid humour, fluid, etc., back to its source or away or inwards from a swollen or diseased part; the action of suppressing an infection, swelling, eruption, etc.; an instance of this. Now rare or disused. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > dispersing, etc., of humours or morbid matter resolvinga1398 attractiona1400 resolutiona1400 repercussion?a1425 eduction?c1425 discussion1583 repulsion1583 epicrasis1592 derivation1600 expurgation1615 attractation1616 incision1626 diversion1656 dispersion1753 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 167^v (MED) Among þe secunde operacionz cirurgicale, repercussioun is more necessarie, sith þat it defendeþ augmentyng of aposteme. ?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Rij^v The seconde [intention]..is fulfylled by repercussyon at the begynnynge. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 303 Mercurie..For repercussion thou win'st praise. 1663 J. Beale in R. Boyle Wks. (1772) VI. 372 I should prefer that method in agues before any violent repercussions, though it were the famous febrifuga called Jesuit's bark. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xlii. 93 The proper..Nourishment of the Similary Parts is done by..Repercussion not by Attraction. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Tumour The other [method] is to stop and repel 'em; which is call'd Repercussion, that sends 'em back to their Source. 1769 G. Arnaud Plain Method curing Disorders Bladder (ed. 3) xiv. 204 The sudden repercussion of the venereal virus into the blood..is affected by this fatal practice. 1868 E. Wilson Dis. Skin (ed. 7) v. 187 He likewise expresses an old-fashioned dread of repercussion of the eruption from exposure to cold draughts of air. 1922 B. C. Woodbury Homoeopathic Materia Medica Nurses (ed. 2) iv. 90 Repercussion of eruption. †b. gen. The action or power of driving back an advancing force or body. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > repelling an impinging or advancing body repercussionc1540 repike1687 c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cvj This goume is generat of see froith, quhilk is cassin vp be continewal repercussion of craggis aganis the see wallis. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 11 The vapor thereof by repercussion, forceth them [sc. the planets] to be evidently retrograde, and goe backward [L. et retroire cogit vapore percussas]. 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 3 A man cannot fasten..any maine stroke and visible vpon soft and yeelding bodies, in that they haue no repercussion. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §17 Because of the repercussion of other Atoms..they receive such knocks as make them quiet in their places. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 172 They various Ways recoil, and swiftly flow By mutual Repercussions to and fro. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 77 From the opposition it must have met in these mountainous tracts, and the repercussion of their craggy sides, eddies must have been formed. 1835 T. Irving Conq. Florida II. xxxvi. 270 On their left lay a large island, formed by vast quantities of drift-wood swept down the river, and piled up by the repercussion of the waters from the sea. †c. The forcing back of flame by blowing against it. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.Only in the writings of Bishop Joseph Hall. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > repelling an impinging or advancing body > specific flame repercussion1628 1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. ii. i. 9 Like as the repercussion of the flame intends it more. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxii O God, if thy bellowes did not sometimes thus breath vpon mee, in spirituall repercussions. †2. a. Repulse or recoil of a thing after impact; an instance of this. Also: the fact of being driven back by a resisting force or body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > rebound > [noun] reboundinga1382 reverberationc1405 rebound1440 stot1513 repercussion1553 recoil1583 resilience1626 reflection1642 refraction1653 resilition1654 backstroke1674 retro-spring1716 ricochet1740 dap1835 bounce1884 spring-back1899 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 174^v The streame..apering by the reparcussion of the water in many places to be ful of great stones in the bottome [L. occultaque saxa inesse ostendebant pluribus locis undae repercussae]. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. G^v That (with the repurcussion of the Ayre) Shooke the great Eagle sitting in his Chayre. 1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5148 The other Secondary Affections of Winds; as their Undulation, Repercussion from Promontories, Opposition, &c. 1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 205 After much thunder and roaring by the allision and repercussion of the flame against and from the sides of the Caverns. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 371 The waters are violently carried against the rocks: and in their repercussion, form dangerous whirlpools. 1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. (1805) VII. 11 By the repercussion bursting out with redoubled force. 1827 A. Vieyra & J. P. Aillaud Dict. Portuguese & Eng. Lang. (new ed.) Resalto,..the repercussion of a body, or rebound. 1857 E. J. Lewis Amer. Sportsman 427 There was neither a heavy breech nor long stock to ward off or receive the repercussion in those guns, and the whole force of the explosion consequently was transmitted immediately to the timber to which they were all attached. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. xiii. §3 This certainty can never be wrought but by a repercussion of the engraffed notion upon itself. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiii. 75 A mighty wall As Diamond Solid, where all Sence must fall With repercussion. 1869 J. D. Baldwin Pre-hist. Nations (1877) iv. 138 Their action..has entered the current of European affairs indirectly only, and by repercussion. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) 79 The injury done her cousin, which by the repercussion of its shock..serves to transfigure..the whole bright light nature of Beatrice. c. Medicine. = ballottement n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > specific methods of diagnosis > of pregnancy ballottement1830 repercussion1834 ballotting1856 1834 G. O. Heming tr. M. A. V. Boivin & A. Dugès Pract. Treat. Dis. Uterus i. iv. 140 The absence of repercussion [Fr. ballottement (toucher vaginal)], of the movements of the fœtus, and of the pulsations of the fœtal heart, will prove the non-existence of pregnancy. 1844 G. O. Heming in Lancet 22 June 410/2 I believe I first pointed out this mode of examination in my translation of the work of Madame Boivin, ‘On Diseases of the Uterus’, and suggested that it should be called hypogastric repercussion. 1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy ii. 94 Ballottement, or repercussion, is a valuable means of acquiring information as to the existence of pregnancy. 1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) vii. 39 Feeling ballotement or repercussion, hearing the fœtal movements. 3. a. Originally: reflection of a sound; echo, reverberation; an instance of this; (now rare). In later use: (in plural) recurring sounds or vibrations. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > reverberation or echo echo1340 repercussion1554 rebound1567 reverberation1569 reverberating1576 answer1609 re-echoing1611 re-echo1613 replicationa1616 back-echo1626 echoinga1649 reboation1648 redounda1665 aftersound1807 verberation1825 reverb1875 anacampsis1879 liveness1931 post-echo1956 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 201 in Wks. (1931) I That all the roches rang, Throuch repercussioun of thare suggurit sang. 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine iii. vi Where every echo's repercussion May help me to bewail mine overthrow. 1600 T. Lodge in Eng. Parnassus 198 Mans voyce in euery ones opinion, is but an airie repercussion. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ii. 4 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Let our Letters be as Eccho's, let them bound back and make mutuall repercussions. 1660 S. Pordage in tr. Seneca Troades Comm. 49 The repercussion of the air against some rock or hill, or some obvious body which repeats the dilated sound by reflection. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 119 To bridle the Evagation of the Sound..but..not to make a Confusion thereof, by any disagreeable Repercussions. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 95 This dreadful noise is prolonged by repercussions from the caverns of the mountains. 1855 J. H. Newman Callista (1856) xxvii. 240 Like the echo which is a repercussion of the original voice. 1911 E. Wharton Ethan Frome v. 102 The repetition of the name seemed to carry it to the farther corners of the room and send it back to them in long repercussions of sound. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 644/1 Its solemn clonk-clonk , interpenetrating the stately repercussions of the main engines, was rarely heard on that ship. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 116 The jumpy repercussions of the car on the roadway. 1995 USA Today (Nexis) 28 Apr. 4 a Flowers and Gessouroun headed to the roof after feeling the hospital towers shake from the repercussions of the blast. b. Music. (a) The repetition of the subject of a fugue after the exposition; (b) the dominant of the mode in which a psalm tone is written (cf. reciting note n. at reciting n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > proper interval repercussion1609 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > answer reply1597 answer1737 response1765 comes1838 repercussion1872 risposta1876 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus i. iv. 12 The Repercussion [L. repercussio], which by Guido is called a Trope, and the proper and fit melodie of each Tone. Or it is the proper interuall of each Tone. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Of these three Chords the two Extremes, i. e. the final and the predominant one, (which are properly the Repercussion of each Mode) [beat] oftener than the middle one. 1872 H. C. Banister Text-bk. Mus. §391 During the successive entries of the Subject and Answer, the other parts continue with counterpoints,..and this entry of all the parts constitutes the Exposition (or Repercussion), exhibiting the material of which the Fugue is to be formed. 1889 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 139/1 [Tonal Fugue] The alternation of the Subject with the Answer—called its Repercussion..—is governed by necessary, though somewhat elastic laws. 1976 Musical Q. 62 399 The mode at the very beginning of the work is also introduced by its repercussion interval. 1997 M. S. Lewis A. Gardano, Venetian Music Printer (2005) v. 50 The overall tonality of the work appears to be mode 5; C is both the repercussion of the mode, and one of the principal cadence points recognized by the theorists. †4. a. The action of an object or surface in reflecting the light or heat of the sun; an instance of this. Also figurative. Obsolete.Common in 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] reflectiona1398 reverberation?a1475 reflexity?c1500 reflex1508 repercussion1563 resultation1603 rebound1689 the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > as an action of light reverberationa1475 repercussion1563 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 5^v The hyghest [region], because it is next to the region of ye fier, is exceading hoate, the lowest beinge next the earth and the waters, is temperat, and by repercussion or striking back of the sunne beames waxeth hoate. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xxv. 110 Certaine buttons..which with the repercussion and reverberation of the Sun-beames, doe shine againe like resplendent gold. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. xii. 95 That the rayes..may not..be returned..for such a repercussion would make the sight more confused. 1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. iv. 142 By Reflection and Repercussion of the Sun's Rays. 1727 ‘S. Brunt’ Voy. to Cacklogallinia 112 That it is a solid Body, is evident by the Repercussion of the Light which it receives from the Sun. 1765 Doctrinal Texts Brethren's Congregation 7 The Rays they are emitting, of the Sun's Element are but a Repercussion. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 40 Our love and electing of him [sc. God] is but the repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us. 1845 T. De Quincey On Wordsworth's Poetry in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 547/2 What would the sun be itself..if its glory were not endlessly..thrown back by atmospheric repercussions? 1866 Astron. Reg. July 185 The sun thus shining through it and causing a various refraction and repercussion of light, makes that splendour which we call the tail or tresses of a comet. b. An image of something produced by reflection. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > reproducing an image > image produced by imagec1350 umberc1407 idol1563 reflection1563 reflex1596 shadow-light1623 species1638 repercussion1646 reflect1829 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 58 As in a Christall, there is a perfect Repercussion of a Mans visage. c. A coloration of an object resulting from the particular quality of the (reflected) light cast on it. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [noun] > colour from reflected light repercussion1665 surface colour1810 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 30 A number of Fish, whose glistering shells made that artificial light in the night, and gave the Sea a white repercussion. 5. †a. The return of a force or impact; an impact made in response to or as a consequence of another. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] > return action or operation repercussion1603 reacting1611 recussion1754 reaction1771 reagency1793 reverberation1797 retroaction1799 response1887 snap-back1972 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] proofc1330 worka1382 workinga1382 consequentc1386 effectc1390 processa1400 consequencec1400 sequel1477 efficacea1492 operation1525 branch1526 efficacy1549 trial1559 ensuing1561 repercussion1603 success1606 productiona1610 salutation1609 succeedinga1616 pursuancea1626 spawna1631 income1635 result1638 importance1645 consequency1651 product1651 causal1652 causate1656 consectary1659 propter hoc1671 inference1673 corollary1674 resultment1683 produce1698 recussion1754 development1803 suitea1806 eventuation1813 sequent1838 sequence1853 causatum1879 sequela1883 ramification1925 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > undesired or unintended consequence(s) or side-effect repercussion1603 aftermath1671 ill effect1675 mal-effect1686 side effect1814 wrack1844 implication1873 backwash1876 katzenjammer1897 backlash1921 kickback1935 spillover1940 fallout1954 rub-off1962 booby prize1972 own goal1975 the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > returning a blow repercussion1603 recussion1754 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 188 When our eies be sore..we turne away our sight unto those bodies and colours which make no reverberation or repercussion backe againe upon it. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 480 The law of repercussion and retalion tooke no place. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 611 The bones strike the Nerue,..The same Nerue makes a repercussion vpon the Membrane. b. figurative. A return of any kind of action, a responsive act, a resulting effect or implication; an undesired or unintended consequence. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution yieldinga1340 talion1412 retributiona1425 recompensec1425 recompensationa1513 requitement1548 retaliation1581 lex talionis1597 requital1597 retaling1597 taliationa1601 law of retalion1607 talio1611 retail1615 retorsion1637 repercussion1641 retributing1645 reddition1656 retortion1762 poetical justice1796 utu1828 retort1836 quits1865 poetic justice1991 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 92 The subject whereon shee had to worke being hard and apt to resist, made her subject to repercussions. a1684 R. Leighton Theol. & Expos. Lect. (1828) 148 Observing of others, to improve the good and the evil we see in them..,looking on them to make the repercussion the stronger on ourselves. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 148. ⁋5 Tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the..repercussion of communicated pleasure. 1831 C. Lamb in Englishman's Mag. Aug. 555 Natural re-percussions, and results to be expected from the assumed extravagances of..mock life. 1906 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Jan. 1 The disasters of Tsardom in the Japanese war have had a repercussion all over Europe. 1935 Times 5 July 15/3 The direct effects and indirect repercussions of any projected action. 1948 Hansard Commons 26 Jan. 673 All practical measures will be adopted..to minimise repercussions upon other unconvertible European currencies. 1969 T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. ii. 85 The inclusion of that fact in the Reformation doctrine of the Grace of God had immense repercussions. 2007 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 23 Nov. a10 I've known people to get behind the wheel after drinking—intelligent individuals who should understand the potentially catastrophic repercussions of their actions. †6. a. A repeated blow. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > repetition or exchange of blows > a repeated blow repercussion1626 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. 244 Rhœtus..aggrauates his wound With repercussions of his burning brand [L. semicremoque novat repetitum stipite vulnus]. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. 96 He found his Face swell'd, and his Gumms so batter'd and bruised with the repercussions of his grinders, that he was not able to stirre his jawes. b. A repeated attack of pain. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > repeated attack of repercussion1796 1796 R. Burns Let. Apr. (2003) II. 378 I have only..counted Time by the repercussions of Pain! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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