clarion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæ.ɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈklæ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈklɛ-/
rhymes: -æɹiən
Forms: form: clarions
form: clarioning
form: clarioned
form: clarioned
Etymology: From Middle English clariounen (“of a horn or trumpet: to blow, sound”), from clarioun (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs). Later uses may also be derived directly from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
examples: text: His deep voice clarioned the words and he paused, hearing them whisper away into their last faint echoes in the organ loft.
ref: 1946, Rebecca Rogers, They Ask for Bread, New York, N.Y.: Rockport Press Publishers, →OCLC, page 16:
text: He [Martin Luther King Jr.] clarioned a call to action that was heard wherever Afro-Christians could be found (and beyond, if one recalls Pentecostalism).
ref: 1997, Cedric J[ames] Robinson, “The Search for Higher Ground”, in Black Movements in America (Revolutionary Thought/Radical Movements), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
text: All around me the tamaracks, alder birches and willows would send up amber and golden flares clarioning the winter; […]
ref: 2004, Brian Keenan, “First Footfalls in Fairbanks”, in Four Quarters of Light: A Journey through Alaska, London; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
examples: text: Sir Knight, thy glory clarioneth the heavens.
ref: 1833, [Richard Henry Horne], “Of Composers, and Instrumental Performers”, in Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public, London: Effingham Wilson, […], →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
examples: text: [T]hou, young-bodied morn, / In-ushered by the puffed winds clarioning, / No bond can bind.
ref: 1883, [Ronald Roth], “The Judgment of Tithonus”, in Edgar or the New Pygmalion; and The Judgment of Tithonus, Madras, Tamil Nadu: Higginbotham and Co. […], →OCLC, scene ii, page 23:
text: We dogs are all a-mourning; but thou [a rooster] clappest thy wings and clarionest thy loudest and treadest hen after hen.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Tale of the Bull and the Ass. [Night 1.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: Grey dawn is over, Chrysilla, and ere now the morning cock clarioning leads on the envious Lady of Morn.
ref: 1890, Antipater of Thessalonica, “Sect. I. Love. [At Cockcrowing]”, in J[ohn] W[illiam] Mackail, transl., Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology […], London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, epigram XXIV, page 100:
text: [N]ow groaning, now with his eye flashing, now with a tear—undoubtedly a frozen tear—standing in the eye, now clarioning, now sighing, onward and upward he goes: […]
ref: 1921, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, A Plea for Old Cap Collier, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, pages 48–49:
text: He heard his mother bugling and clarioning outside, and he tried to tell the nurse not to let her in, but no words would come out, no matter how hard he tried.
ref: 1986 September 15, Stephen King, “Eddie’s Bad Break”, in It, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published November 1986, →ISBN, part 4 (July of 1958), section 4, page 787:
glosses: To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
Derived terms: word: clarioning