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单词 reverberate
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reverberateadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈvəːbərət/, U.S. /rəˈvərbərət/, /riˈvərbərət/
Forms: 1500s–1600s reuerberate, 1600s reverberat, 1600s 1800s– reverberate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin reverberātus, reverberāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin reverberātus, past participle of reverberāre reverberate v. Compare reverberated adj., reverberating adj.
I. As past participle.
1. Reverberated. rare after 17th cent.
ΚΠ
1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis sig. D3 The aire..Which once reuerberate, straight yeelds a noice.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. L2 That his teare-thyrsty and vnquenched hate, May be vpon himselfe reuerberate.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1161 A man may see in the Moone the great ocean, without, not in the very place where it is situate: but from whence the reflexion by touching the light reverberat and sent backe, maketh a sight and apparition thereof.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §261 Both of them [sc. visibles and audibles] will be Reverberate; as in Mirrors, and in Echoes.
1841 J. Dunlop South Sea Islanders 227 To be reverberate still in heavenly mansions high, And by responsive angels 'mid the joyous sky.
1998 C. Hellier in C. Carson Becoming Americans (1999) 159 It continues to be reverberate in contemporary society.
II. As adjective.
2. That has been reverberated; re-echoed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing > reverberated
echoed1590
reverberate1595
reverberated1678
reverbed1975
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > forced back (of flames)
reverberate1595
reverberatory1605
reverbering1690
reverberating1694
1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. C3 v As doe the sun-beames gainst the earth protected, With their reuerberate vigor mount in flames.
1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. I With reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ix. 134 Such ecchoing shoutes (which..With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill).
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Reverberatory, a Furnace used by Chymists for the Calcining of their Minerals..by a Reverberate flame.
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 432 Steady surges, regular in resonance, not fitful or gusty but antiphonal and reverberate.
1994 A. Sinclair In Love & Anger vi. 127 A long roar, a reverberate clapping, no noise, a bleach of space, an end of the world.
3. poetic. Reverberating. rare.In later use with allusion to Shakespeare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing
rebounding1555
rolling1575
repercussive1604
doubling1605
reverberate1608
reparable echo1616
revoicing1631
reverberating1632
rewording1657
re-echoing1668
repeating1685
phonocamptic1694
echoing1702
anacamptic1706
anacamptical1706
reactive1712
rebellowing1712
redoubling1717
repulsive1744
reverberative1807
reverbering1822
reboant1830
echoy1841
reverberant1847
reboantic1853
verberant1864
1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques sig. B3v Which skill Pithagoras First taught to men, by a reuerberate glasse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 261 Hallow your name to the reuerberate hilles.
1814 E. Thurlow Doge's Daughter ii, in Moonlight 191 Thrice his horse neigh'd, and the reverberate hills Gave back the image of his voice.
1938 M. Rukeyser U.S. 1 52 Down the reverberate channels of the hills The suns declare midnight, go down, cannot ascend, No ladder back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

reverberatev.

Brit. /rᵻˈvəːbəreɪt/, U.S. /rəˈvərbəˌreɪt/, /riˈvərbəˌreɪt/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s reuerberate, 1500s– reverberate, 1600s reuerberat, 1600s reverberat.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin reverberāt-, reverberāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin reverberāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of reverberāre to repel violently from a surface, beat back, in post-classical Latin also to dazzle (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), to reflect (from 12th cent. in British sources), to cause (sound) to re-echo (c1200 in a British source) < re- re- prefix + verberāre verberate v. Compare Middle French reverberer, French réverbérer to strike again (end of the 14th cent.), to reflect (an image), to reflect (heat or light) (c1400), to repeat (something) (1424), to shine (c1470), Catalan reverberar (15th cent.), Spanish reverberar (15th cent.), Portuguese reverberar (a1557), Italian riverberare, †reverberare (14th cent.).Compare the following isolated attestation of Middle English reverbere, showing borrowing of either Middle French reverberer or classical Latin reverberāre:?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 58v When þei [sc. breasts] ben hette of þe herte þei mowe reuerberen þe hete aȝeine to þe herte þat þe herte mowe be conforted bi þe hete.
1.
a. transitive. To beat, drive, or force back; to repel, repulse. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel > something impinging or advancing
repercuss?a1425
repulse?a1425
reverberatec1487
rebut1490
repel?1529
rebuff1697
wash1697
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 325 The sone bemes ne may have enteres to reuerberate the busshy shade with theire clere aspectes glitteryng as golde.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxiiv Reuerberate nat the cause inward with no oyntment.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ov A strong wall to repulse and reuerberate the violence of the furious waues of the Sea.
1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1049 The Exhalation from the Bath, reverberated by the Cupola..and by the Capitals of the Pillars, formeth long Stones like Ice-icles.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 68 By the gusts of wind reverberated from the hill.
1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. cxiii. 128 As the billows are reverberated from the rock.
1823 M. Radcliffe Domest. Cookery 635 A child's bed should not be surrounded with close curtains, so as to obstruct the free communication of air, or to reverberate the exhalations from his lungs and body.
b.
(a) intransitive. With in and reflexive pronoun. To turn or bend back. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have backward direction or turn back
reverberate1578
reciprocate1623
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya i. 23 For the perpendicular beames reflect and reuerberate in themselues, so that the heate is doubled, euery beame striking twice.
1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 356 On the top of this fiery trunk, seemeth the fire to be in form of a fiery Globe,..which fire reverberateth and rolleth in it self.
(b) intransitive. With on, upon, to. To recoil, come back on a person, one's feelings, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > respondent
reverberate1608
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > fall to one > fall back upon a person
redound1539
reverberate1608
result1768
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > have effect
to pierce one's stomach1509
reverberate1608
impose1625
bite1638
to strike home1694
to cut ice (with someone)1894
register1913
project1933
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > fire [verb (transitive)] > force (flame) back > strike on as result
reverberate1608
1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 108 Therefore must his owne termes of falshood, fraud, treacherie, reuerberate vpon himselfe.
1713 Hist. Grand Reb. ii. 227 Thus does the malice, levell'd at the great By fools, upon themselves reverberate.
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl I. vii. 192 All the blessings which under heaven he conferred on her reverberated [printed reveberated] on his own feelings.
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 6/2 The..sympathy..by which she made all that one could tell her..reverberate..to one's own feelings, by the manifest impression it made upon her.
c. transitive. Originally: †to send (something) back whence it came; to cast back upon something; (obsolete). In later use: spec. to deflect (flames, heat, etc.) (on to or on something).
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > fall to one > cast back upon something
reverberatea1604
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > fire [verb (transitive)] > force (flame) back
reverberate1758
a1604 R. Hall Life & Death John Fisher (1655) 23 The fire of Love..kindling within his breast, sent such a stream up into his minde, as suddenly distilled into his eyes, which like an overflowing viol reverberates the stream back againe to the heart.
1618 T. Gainsford True Hist. P. Warbeck 111 From a continual melancholy, reuerberating mislike and hate vpon his staggering conceits.
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) sig. G4 Why hark, your own tongue answers you, and reverberates your words into your teeth.
1658 T. St. Serfe tr. M. de Marmet Entertainments of Cours 111 The great coldnesse of the Region reverberates the natural heat inwards, and makes the moisture of their brains..exceed the drought.
1711 Atlas Geographus I. 177/1 They cover the Smoke-hole in the Roof with Ice, which reverberates the Heat into the Room.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 71 This calx further calcined by a moderate fire, the flame being reverberated on it, soon grows white.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder It would be of great use to reverberate the steam on malt and madder-roots.
1832 A. B. Lambert Descr. Genus Pinus (new ed.) II. 159 The heat and smoke, which are reverberated on the wood, cause the resin and sap to flow from the latter.
1920 J. M. Camp & C. B. Francis Making, Shaping & Treating of Steel (ed. 2) ii. vi. 419 The roof of the furnace slopes downward toward the middle of the furnace and reverberates the heat of the flame upon the floor.
1921 L. S. Austin Metall. Common Metals (ed. 5) vi. 73 The hearth is covered by an arched roof so as to reverberate or throw down the heat upon the charge placed on the hearth.
1994 C. Bodsworth Extraction & Refining of Metals iv. 163 The reverberatory furnace, so named because the heat is ‘reverberated’ to the charge from the furnace roof.
d. intransitive. Of a material object: to recoil, rebound, esp. with a reverberating sound. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > rebound > [verb (intransitive)]
to pilt up againa1200
bolt?c1225
rebounda1398
redoundc1500
stot1513
to strike upward1530
band1580
recoil1591
bound1597
result1598
retort1599
resile1641
bandy1658
resiliate1755
ricochet1804
reverberate1817
kick1832
dap1851
bounce1887
bank1962
1817 M. Wilks Hist. Sketches S. India II. xv. 47 Khâkee Shâh was cut in two by a cannon shot... The shot must have reverberated from the other rocks.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 282 A stone dropped into one of them reverberated against the sides for apparently a very great depth.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vi. 56 Our rifle-balls reverberated from their hides like cork pellets from a pop-gun target.
2. transitive. Of light or sound: to fall on or strike; to spread throughout, fill. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)] > of light
reverberate1561
strikea1586
repercuss1592
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (transitive)] > fall or strike upon (of sound)
reverberate1561
1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. sig. ¶¶.iiiv His beames reuerberatyng heauen, represente suche a maner of lyght, as we haue in Sommer two houres before the Sunne ryse.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 377 How still your voice with prudent discipline My Prentize eare doth oft re-verberate.
1648 Great Britans Vote 3 United voices even reverberate the aire with this heaven-piercing Eccho.
1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World viii. 227 Only the Air as I have said, having the sound Actuated in it, and being Reverberated, doth Return it with the Sound in it.
3. Chemistry and Metallurgy.
a. transitive and †intransitive. To heat (a substance) in such a way that flames are deflected on to or pass over its surface. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > furnace or kiln > subject to heat of reverberatory furnace
reverberate1576
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (intransitive)] > subject to heat of reverberatory furnace
reverberate1712
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 237 If the Salt drawne, be not white, then let it be reuerberated vnto a whitenesse.
1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie 91 Then reverberate it with an open fire.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. D4 Sub. Out of that calx, I' ha' wonne the salt of Mercurie. Mam. By pouring on your rectefied water? Sub. Yes, and reuerberating in Athanor. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 9 It may be done..By reverberating.
1699 tr. H. de Blancourt Art of Glass xlvii. 92 2 ounces of Crocus Martis Calcined and Reverberated with Sulphur.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 109 Take impalpable Powder,..calcine and reverberate twenty-four Hours.
1778 W. Lewis New Dispensatory (Dublin ed. 4) iii. x. 512/2 Take any quantity of the calx of mercury, and reverberate it in a crucible, with successive degrees of heat.
1845 Astrologer & Oracle of Destiny 2 Aug. 235/2 Taking common salt, and quick or unslaked lime, reverberate them together in a wind furnace with the strongest fire.
1985 M. M. Junius Pract. Handbk. Plant Alchemy xi. 225 Put it back in the pan, reverberate it as before, first with a small fire to let it glow sweetly without getting a taste.
b. intransitive. Of flame, hot gases, etc.: to impinge on something, to pass over or into something, as a result of being deflected. Obsolete.
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The Chymists say, Make the Flame Reverberate on the Coppel.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 60 So that the Fumes of the Coals may reverberate over 'em.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 577 The flame that escapes from the founding or pot-furnace is thus economically brought to reverberate on the raw materials of the bottle glass.
1894 Harper's Mag. Jan. 420 The flames pass over this bridge, and reverberate into the laboratory, where they act on the charge.
c. intransitive. Of a substance: to be heated in such a way that flames pass over its surface. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > actions of furnace [verb (intransitive)] > undergo reverberation
reverberate1738
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 47 Let them reverberate and calcine in an Earthen Pot in a Furnace for 24 hours.
1985 M. M. Junius Pract. Handbk. Plant Alchemy xi. 207 Take all the feces that have remained in the retort,..set them all together to reverberate..until they become snow-white.
d. intransitive. Of a kiln or furnace: to heat by reverberation (reverberation n. 3). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > become fire [verb (intransitive)] > cause reverberation
reverberate1763
1763 J. Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 62 Kilns thus built, swelling at or about the middle, and contracting again at the top, reverberate more strongly..than those which grow wider and wider.
4.
a. intransitive. Of a place or object: to ring or vibrate with sound; to re-echo, resound. Frequently with with, to.
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1590 T. Fenne Frutes sig. Bb4 No fiend that comes from hell could any more lament..with bounsing blowes and cries, Whereat the caues reuerberate, and Echo roles in skies.
1686 Famous Hist. Seven Champions Christendom: 3rd Pt. vi. 42 The hollow Caverns of the Hills reverberated with such an Eccho, as if Jupiter had spent his thundering Artillery to welcom these English Heroes.
1760 W. Woty Shrubs of Parnassus 43 She..Makes Echo's hall reverberate around, And wakes each note that slept within her lyre.
1786 tr. Marquis de Langle Sentimental Journey through Spain I. 73 Let your walls reverberate with the cries of a child newly born.
1835 W. Irving Newstead Abbey in Crayon Misc. II. 196 The ruined walls would reverberate with their incessant cawings.
1866 J. Gilliss Let. 18 Mar. in So Far from Home (1993) 49 The birds seem nearly wild and the rocks reverberate with their throat-splitting chorus.
1906 M. Wagnalls Stars Opera 51 Its great chandelier vibrated to the sound of a new voice and the marble walls of its ornate halls reverberated to the sound of a new name.
1918 K. Burke Let. 18 Feb. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 61 Peruse a page of him, and your ear will reverberate with the tintinnabulations of his superabundant Latinity.
1967 B. Took & M. Feldman in B. Took & M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ (2000) 174/1 The railroad is coming through—Soon the Black Hills will reverberate to the sound of the iron horse.
1981 A. MacLean River of Death (1983) Introd. 11 High above the North Sea the air thundered and reverberated to the throbbing roar of scores of plane engines.
2002 M. Collins Resurrectionists x. 97 The door reverberated as she pulled it hard behind her.
b. intransitive. Of sound: to resound, re-echo. Also figurative: (of reputation, news, etc.) to be much mentioned or repeated; (also) to have consequential effects.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] > reverberate or echo > of sounds
rebounda1398
redounda1470
echo1563
reverberate1591
remurmur1699
verberate1767
1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame 326 The groanes are lesse at hels black gate, Then Eccho there did then reuerberate.
1609 T. Morton Catholike Appeale v. xxiv. 650 False accusations (as S. Basil saith) do oftentimes reuerberate, and eccho vpon the Accusers themselues.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 79 That Sound eccho'd and reverberated from innumerable Cavities and Hollows among the Rocks.
1759 O. Goldsmith Enq. Present State Polite Learning v They wait till something new comes out from others;..and reject it, or make it reverberate through the rest of Europe.
1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (new ed.) 23 The shock—the shout—the groan of war—Reverberate along that vale.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. i. v. 92 The disturbance of a single nerve-fibre..reverberates throughout the entire nervous system.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xvii. 236 The roar of the stream reverberating through the woods.
1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 212 I..seemed like some strange reminiscence of myself, like an echo that had gone reverberating down countless centuries.
1930 V. Sackville-West Edwardians i. 13 The clock..struck One, and the sound reverberated all round the roofs.
1958 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples IV. x. iii. 47 Cobden and Bright's thundering speeches against the landed classes reverberated through the nation.
1992 Matrix Fall 18/1 Not the shrieking of the saw through bone, reverberating in the concrete well of the hippo pool.
c. transitive. To cause (a sound or noise) to resound or re-echo.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (transitive)] > reverberate or echo
answera1425
redoublea1542
rebound1555
return1557
reply1565
report1589
re-echo1595
repercuss?a1597
render1598
reverberate1603
respeak1604
reverb1608
retort1609
reword1609
revoice1610
refract1621
to give back1889
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 273 The hilles to heav'n reverberate their voyce.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 114 Voice is moved and reverberated from smooth places, as a ball against a Wall.
1685 Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 540 Passing..from Sphere to Sphere!.. Which, Hark! reverberates and multiplies the sound!
1743 M. Jones Let. 11 Oct. in Misc. in Prose & Verse 244 The slightest thing, you say in my Favour, strikes sensibly upon my Nature, and makes me long to reverberate the sound.
1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. viii. 5 Oft did the cliffs reverberate the sound.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 204 Hellgate rocks reverberate the roar.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. 1033 A canopy or type over a pulpit, to reverberate the voice of the speaker.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 247 The evening gun thundered from the fortress, and was reverberated from the heights.
1942 N. Cameron in A. Hodge et al. Work in Hand 40 We give him yes-men in a row, Reverberating that self-praise He wearied of a while ago.
1975 Sci. Amer. July 48/2 Signals become convolved when sounds are reverberated or resonated or, in the case of photographs, when images are blurred.
2000 A. Tomatis in D. Campbell Music (ed. 2) i. 24 The walls of the church itself are excited, reverberating the sound.
5.
a. intransitive. Of heat or (less commonly) light: to be reflected, esp. repeatedly (from something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (intransitive)]
rebounda1398
glentc1400
reflect?a1439
reflamec1450
reverberate1598
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 171 Diuers colours, which reuerberated from the flowers.
1623 W. Traheron & E. Grimeston tr. P. Mexia Imperiall Hist. 304 The sunne-beames might reuerberate from those glasses.
1686 True Fortune-Teller (ed. 2) xli. 176 The Beams being shott direct, reverberate or are beaten back, making a round Circle or Halen.
1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. 116 The rage of the sun that reverberated from the continued rocks.
a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iv. 101 The heat of the sun, which reverberated again from the water.
1908 G. E. Hadow & W. H. Hadow Oxf. Treasury Eng. Lit. III. v. 136 A page of his history is like a sheet of metal: light reverberates from its polished lustre.
1979 J. J. Gibson Ecol. Approach Visual Perception ii. 29 Light reverberates between the sky and the earth and between surfaces.
1987 D. E. Fisher Birth of Earth xi. 86 Trapped under the thick carbon dioxide clouds, the heat reverberates and the planet simply gets hotter and hotter.
2007 M. E. Schlesinger Aluminum Recycling vii. 113 The heat reverberates (bounces) off the walls and impinges on the aluminum in the hearth.
b. transitive. To reflect (light, heat, or other radiation), esp. repeatedly. Now chiefly technical.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)]
rebounda1450
reflexc1536
reflect1555
return1557
repercuss1604
retort1609
refract1621
reverberate1638
to throw back1698
flash1716
to give back1831
glint1844
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 135 Guilded crescents or spires which gallantly reverberate Apollo's yellow flames.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 101 Fleshy Pillars, wherewith the heat is both more easily preserved and reverberated.
1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 304 These [caps],..by reverberating the Heat, prevent the Spirit from evaporating.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 86 On which the Sun shining.., its Rays were reverberated as from another Sun.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 18 The far flashing of their starry lances Reverberates the dying light of day.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 126 The full glory of a tropical sunset, reverberated from the sea.
1947 U.S. Patent 2,431,962 4/2 The high frequencies will..be reverberated in chamber A and pass through the door to speaker 19.
1978 Nature 31 Aug. 876/2 The intensity of the radiation being reverberated in the cavity is sampled by measuring the power passing through a hole in the wall.
1998 T. J. Mason in M. J. W. Povey & T. J. Mason Ultrasound Food Processing vi. 113 The vibrational energy, before being absorbed by the liquid is reverberated by the opposite plate.
c. intransitive. To shine on (also upon) something, esp. with reflected beams or rays of light. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (intransitive)] > onto
reverberate1645
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxi. 42 You seem'd to reverberat upon me with the Beams of the Sun.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 234 In regard the rayes of Christianity first reverberated upon her.
c1650 Don Bellianis 223 The sun reverberating on them made the city seem of a burning flame.
6. transitive. To beat or strike (a thing) frequently or repeatedly. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)]
abeatOE
beatc1000
dingc1300
dintc1300
bulka1400
batc1440
hampera1529
pommel1530
lump1546
pummel1548
bebatter1567
filch1567
peal-pelt1582
reverberate1599
vapulate1603
over-labour1632
polt1652
bepat1676
flog1801
quilt1822
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1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 45/1 Reverberate the same dilligentlye with the Spatula [Ger. darnach schlag sie vast], and it will be the better.
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