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verberate, v.|ˈvɜːbəreɪt|
[f. L. verberāt-, ppl. stem of verberāre to beat, flog, f. verber a lash, scourge, blow. Cf. It. verberare, Sp. and Pg. verberar, obs. F. verberer.]
1. trans.
a. To strike so as to produce a sound. rare.
1587Mirr. Mag., Albanact lxxv, The sounde that both by sea and land out flies, Reboundes againe, and verberates the skies. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. I. viii. 114 Hearing is made when the aire betwixt the speaker and hearer is verberated in a circulation.
b. To beat or strike so as to cause pain, esp. by way of punishment.
1625Shirley Love Tricks iii. v, You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity. 1656Blount Glossogr., Verberate, to beat, punish or strike. 1657Abp. Sancroft Mod. Pol. (ed. 7) B 7, He feels sometimes, those Bosome-quarrels that verberate and wound his Soul. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 201 So the native verberated him till he reverberated. 1880Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 5 It was proved..that he had been verberated to this extent while with his regiment.
†c. To beat or whip up (a substance). Obs.—1
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 648 Oyl is assumed, verberated, and washed in Fountain-water.
2. intr. To vibrate or quiver.
1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxxiv. l, A fragrant breeze..Made the air trem'lous verberate [It. tremolar] around.
Hence ˈverberating ppl. a.
1867J. B. Rose tr. Virgil's æneid 338 Crooked beak and verberating wings. |
