reverberate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɜɹbəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹi-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹət/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɜɹbəɹət/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɜɹbəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɹi-/
Forms: form: more reverberate
form: most reverberate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reverberātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. sense 2 (“ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds”) was popularized by its use in Twelfth Night (written c. 1601–1602; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616): see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: So vvith reuerberate ſhoutes our Globe ſhall ring, / The Muſicks cloſe being thus: God ſaue our King.
ref: 1604, Tho[mas] Dekker, “And thus Went His Speech”, in The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne His Wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the Day of His Maiesties Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through His Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] T[homas] C[reede], Humphrey Lownes, Edward Allde and others] for Tho[mas] Man the yonger, →OCLC, signature I, recto:
text: The loftie Hills, this vvhile attentiuely that ſtood, / As to ſurvey the courſe of euery ſeuerall Flood, / Sent forth ſuch ecchoing ſhoutes (vvhich euery vvay ſo ſhrill, / VVith the reverberate ſound the ſpacious ayre did fill) […]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 134:
text: "Dover Beach" marks another high point in the volume; it has a grand choral cadence as of steady surges, regular in resonance, not fitful or gusty but antiphonal and reverberate.
ref: 1867 October 1, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Matthew Arnold’s New Poems”, in Essays and Studies, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1875, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
synonyms: word: reverberant
extra: (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed
examples: text: Make me a vvillovv Cabine at your gate, / And call vpon my ſoule vvithin the houſe, / […] / Hallovv your name to the reuerberate hilles, / And make the babling Goſsip of the aire, / Cry out Oliuia: […]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 259, column 2:
text: I vvas that bright Face / Reflected by the Lake, in vvhich thy Race / Read mysticke lines; (vvhich skill Pithagoras / Firſt taught to men, by a reuerberate glaſſe)
ref: 1605 January 16 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben[jamin] Jonson, “The Queenes Masques. The First, of Blacknesse: […] [The Masque of Blackness]. Æthiopia.”, in The Characters of Two Royall Masques. The One of Blacknesse, the Other of Beautie. […], London: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorp[e], […], published [1608], →OCLC, signature B3, verso:
text: Thrice his horse neigh'd, and the reverberate hills / Gave back the image of his voice, […]
ref: 1814, Edward, Lord Thurlow [i.e., Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow], “Part the Second”, in Ariadne: A Poem, […], London: […] William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Press, for Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 34, lines 578–579:
glosses: Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.