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▪ I. † reˈsound, n. Obs.
[f. the vb.]
A returned or re-echoed sound; a resonance.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. Ecl. iv, And you, O trees,..receaue The strange resound of these my causeful cryes. 1615Jackson Creed v. xx. Wks. IV. 177 The pleasant spectacle and sweet resounds which woods and shady fountains afford. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. (1716) 40 Virtuous actions have their own trumpets, and without any noise from thy self will have their resound abroad. 1701Beverley Praise Glory 53 The whole State of that Kingdom, shall be fill'd with the Highest Resounds of that Perfected New Song. 1835H. Evans in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1927) XIV. 213 Distinctly..the resound of guns was heard in quick succession.
▪ II. resound, v.1|rɪˈzaʊnd|
Forms: 4–6 resoun, resown(e; 6 resounde, resownd, 6– resound.
[f. re- + soun(e sound v., after F. resonner (OF. resoner), or L. resonāre (Sp. and Pg. resonar, It. risonare).]
I. intr.
1. Of places: To ring or re-echo with (or † of) some sound. Also with to.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 413 There sat a faukoun..That with a pitous vois bigan to crye, That al the woode resowned of hire cry. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 240 Thay fyrit gunnis wyth powder violent,..The rochis all resownyt wyth the rak. a1547Surrey Prisoner Windsor Castle, The secrete groues which oft we made resounde, Of pleasaunt playnt, and of our ladies' praise. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 51 Their Theatre resounded with hideous howlings. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 290 A pleasant Grove, With chaunt of tuneful Birds resounding loud. 1697Dryden Virg. Ecl. v. 90 For this, with chearful Cries the Woods resound. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 135 The dome resounded with the acclamations of the people. 1812Combe Syntax, Picturesque ii. 44 While ev'ry hedge and ev'ry tree Resound with vocal minstrelsy. 1861F. O. Morris Rec. Animal Sagacity & Character 121 He..lies buried..in those very shrubberies which had so often resounded to his joyous cries. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. vii. (1880) 128 They daily made the vaults resound with their prayer and praise.
b. Without const.
c1450Merlin 274 The nyghtingale and these other briddes songen so lowde that the wode and the river resovned. c1500Lancelot 3436 Hornys, bugillis blawing furth thar sownis, That al the cuntre resownit hath about. 1591Spenser Ruins of Time 597 When all his mourning melodie He ended had, that both the shores resounded. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 6 New sorowes Strike heauen on the face, that it resounds As if it felt with Scotland. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 218 Together rush'd Both Battels maine..; all Heav'n Resounded. 1784Cowper Task i. 586 Yet even these..can..with dance, And music of the bladder and the bag, Beguile their woes, and make the woods resound. 1848Buckley Iliad 28 The waves..roar against the lofty beach, and the deep resounds.
2. Of things: To make or produce an echoing sound.
1530Palsgr. 688/2 Harke howe this horne resoundeth. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxvi. ii, Tongues with gladdnes lowdly resounded. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 306 Hammer milles, which beating upon the iron resound over all the places adjoyning. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 470 His arms resounded as the boaster fell. 1784Cowper Task i. 357 Thump after thump resounds the constant flail. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. x, Then through the dell his horn resounds. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 187 Instruments of music resounded through the building. 1873S. Taylor Sound & Music (1896) 86 The air contained in the ball resounds very powerfully to a single note of different pitch.
3. a. Of sounds: To echo, to ring.
a1547Surrey æneid ii. 383 Lowder more and more The din resouned with rattling of armes. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. viii. 30 When those pittifull outcries he heard Through all the seas so ruefully resownd. 1626T. H[awkins] tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 75 Strooken with the hammer, the noyce wherof will resound, through all the earth. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 334 The rigid interdiction, which resounds Yet dreadful in mine eare. 1781Cowper Heroism 62 And echoing praises..resound at your return. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iv, These words, which resounded far through the streets, were accompanied by as many fierce blows. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VIII. lii. §64. 365 The sound of these cannon resounded from one end of the Peninsula to the other.
b. To be much mentioned or repeated; to be celebrated or renowned.
1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 110 Many..whose names on earth resounde as ecchoes from the rockes. 1667Milton P.L. i. 579 And what resounds In Fable or Romance of Uthers Son. 1836Thirlwall Greece xii. II. 163 The fame of Croesus resounded through Greece. 1864Tennyson Milton 4 Milton, a name to resound for ages.
†c. To answer to something. Obs. rare.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 328 Bot to ressoun that ȝour Sermone resound. 1741Middleton Cicero (ed. 3) III. xii. 305 The consenting praise of all honest men,..which resounds always to virtue, as the eccho to the voice.
II. trans.
4. To proclaim, repeat loudly (one's praises, etc.); to celebrate (a person or thing).
1561in Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 8 If Homere here might dwell, whose praise the Grekes resounde. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 19 Happie, that had such a trumpet as Homer, to resound his vertues. 1633G. Herbert Ch. Milit. 64 The Warrier his deere skarres no more resounds. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 543 To Bacchus..let us tune our Lays, And in our Mother Tongue resound his Praise. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 2 The man..Long exercised in woes, oh Muse! resound. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xli. (1871) V. 118 Horace resounds the praises of Italy in strains not dissimilar to those of Virgil.
†b. With complement. Obs. rare.
1600Abbot Jonah 615 Their owne stories resound them to have bene exceeding filthie. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 149 Th' innumerable sound Of Hymns and sacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne Encompass'd shall resound thee ever blest.
5. a. To repeat or utter (words, etc.) in a loud or echoing manner. Now rare.
1594Spenser Amoretti xix, The quyre of Byrds resounded Their anthemes sweet. 1659Hammond On Ps. xx. 9 Let all the congregation resound Amen. 1715E. Smith Serm. at Wisbeech 15 As soon as the sound is out of your ears, to graft the profitable sense upon your hearts and resound it at home in your conscience. 1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 176 Tho' nations, which consult Their gain, at thy expence, resound applause. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. xv, The..matrons round The dismal coronach resound. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Rel. Knowl. II. 1326 They repeat aloud the oratio dominica (the Lord's Prayer), they resound the creed and the doxology.
†b. To sound or din into one's ears. Obs.—1
1641Sir S. D'Ewes in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) I. iii. 312 They resound nothing into the Ears of the old Emperor Matthias, but his Cousin Ferdinand's high Merits.
6. a. Of places: To re-echo, to give back or repeat (a sound) again.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 159 The forest wide is fitter to resound The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes. 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido iv. ii, Whose hideous echoes make the welkin howl, And all the woods Eliza to resound! 1630Drummond of Hawthornden Flowers Sion, Many an Hymne they..Teacht Groues and Rocks, which did resound their Layes. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 789 Hell trembl'd at the hideous Name, and sigh'd From all her Caves, and back resounded ‘Death!’ 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 86 Serving as..Vaults to resound the Notes. 1809Wordsw. Sonn. Liberty ii. x, Cliffs, woods and caves, her viewless steps resound. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 37 Fancy's echo still yon field resounds With noise of blind-man's buff.
†b. To return in response or answer to something. Obs. rare.
a1617Bayne Lect. (1634) 100 The faithfull heart resoundeth to Gods command an answer of desire. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 544 To which welcome Sentence they will doubtless all immediately resound a joyful Choir of Hallelujahs.
7. To cause (a thing) to sound again.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xxiii. (1783) I. 158 The coachman..resounded the whip, and drove us upon the full trot to the door. |
