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单词 verberation
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verberationn.

Brit. /ˌvəːbəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌvərbəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: 1600s uerberation, 1600s– verberation.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin verberātiōn- , verberātiō ; verberate v., -ion suffix1.
Etymology: Partly (i) < classical Latin verberātiōn-, verberātiō action of flogging (as a punishment), action of beating up, thrashing < verberāt- , past participial stem of verberāre verberate v. + -iō -ion suffix1; and partly (ii) < verberate v. + -ion suffix1 (see -ation suffix).Compare Old French, Middle French verberacion beating, flogging (c1300), reflection (of light), echoing (of sound) (16th cent.), Spanish verberacion beating, strike (c1545), Portuguese verberação beating, flogging, reflection (of light), echoing (of sound) (17th cent.). With sense 1 compare also post-classical Latin reverberatio (see reverberation n.).
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.
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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.
b. Reverberation of sound; an instance of this, an echo. Obsolete.
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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
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.
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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.
b. A sharp or stinging sensation such as that occasioned by being struck. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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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).
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