单词 | verberation |
释义 | verberationn. Now rare. 1. a. The action or an act of causing something to produce sound, as by vibration, beating, or striking; the emission of sound from something; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun] smitea1200 smita1425 yark1555 riprapc1580 brattlea1600 verberation1609 whack1737 whang1770 swash1789 plunk1809 tack1821 pong1823 snop1849 thunge1849 knap1870 thung1890 pow1931 thunk1952 bonk1957 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking so as to produce sound verberation1609 1609 J. Mabb Afflicted Mans Vow xi. 175 Prayer without Knowledge, is but blinde deuotion:..without Zeale, but lip verberation. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvi. vi. 579 Not admitting sound, or verberation of ayre. 1728 T. Cooke Notes to Wks. & Days in tr. Hesiod Wks. I. 201 The Tone..is by the Verberation of a little Membrane about the Loins. 1756 W. Tans'ur New Musical Gram. (ed. 3) iii. i. 125 Sound, is the Verberation, or Modulation of Air; being the Object of Musick. 1854 Manch. Examiner & Times 16 Oct. 4/4 The auctioneer's hammer in its verberations seems but to punctuate the text. 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. I. iii. 131 Canada has often been declared..to be ‘knocking at the door of the Union’. With all humility, I may venture to express the opinion that, if Canada ever resorts to that method of verberation, [etc.]. 1904 Telephone Mag. Apr. 165/2 The verberations of the voice reaching said diaphragm. 1934 Fantasy Autumn 31/2 His fingers shook as they touched the keys. First he struck a note, high, and the verberation was chilled, distinctly bell like. 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 1825 London Mechanics' Reg. 16 July 178/2 The verberation which might be supposed to return from this smooth surface is destroyed by falling upon the top of a pediment over a recess. 1836 I. Steward Mascarenhas III. vi. 142 Gomez..passed his wonder-stricken prisoner: the verberation of his footsteps ceased. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 186 Where The vaulted rocks with verberation ring. 2. a. The action of beating or striking so as to cause damage, pain, or injury; esp. flogging or scourging. Also: an instance of this, a stroke, a blow. Now somewhat rare.In quot. 1978 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 1661 Eliana i. 18 We reiterated our blows with forceable verberations, and with many endeavours wounded one another. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata ii. iv. 51 No solidity or strength of Walls was able to resist the continuated and reiterated Verberations of this Engine [sc. a battering ram]. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 120 The Cornelian law..prohibited pulsation as well as verberation; distinguishing verberation, which was accompanied with pain, from pulsation which was attended with none. ?1776 J. L. De Lolme tr. J. Boileau Hist. Flagellants ix. 239 Among the Turks..a verberation on the part we speak of, is the common punishment that is inflicted either on the Janissaries, or the Spahis. 1784 W. A. Yardley tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Contin. Don Quixote I. ii. vi. 65/2 Notwithstanding all Sancho's protestations to the contrary, he continued the pursuit and verberation. 1800 Neighbourhood II. lxxvi. 221 Exercising the more convincing argument of vigorous verberation on the shoulders of his son. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lazy Idle Boy in Roundabout Papers (1876) 5 The anger, or..the verberations of his schoolmaster. 1898 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 July 2/3 He is of opinion that discipline must be maintained, and coercion may take the form of verberation in correcting her thirst. 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 586/2 The protracted verberation inflicted by Peter Conrad on my The English Vice. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging stingc900 smartingOE smarta1225 stanginga1300 stinging1398 mordicationa1413 stang1513 urtication1655 smartness1682 verberation1688 mordicancy1693 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 387/2 A Uerberation, or Uerberous feeling; a smarting pain, as when we are beaten with rods, whips, or scourges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1609 |
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