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Webster 1913 Edition

Reverberate

Re-ver′ber-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
reverberatus
, p. p. of
reverberare
to strike back, repel; pref.
re-
re- +
verberare
to lash, whip, beat, fr.
verber
a lash, whip, rod.]
1.
Reverberant.
[Obs.]
“The reverberate hills.”
Shak.
2.
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

Re-ver′ber-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reverberated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Reverberating
.]
1.
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
Who, like an arch,
reverberates

The voice again.
Shakespeare
2.
To send or force back; to repel from side to side;
as, flame is
reverberated
in a furnace
.
3.
Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
[Obs.]
“Reverberated into glass.”
Sir T. Browne.

Re-ver′ber-ate

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To resound; to echo.
2.
To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

Webster 1828 Edition

Reverberate

REVERB'ERATE

,
Verb.
T.
[l. reverbero; re and verbero, to beat.]
1.
To return, as sound; to send back; to echo; as, an arch reverberates the voice.
2.
To send or beat back; to repel; to reflect; as, to reverberate rays of light
3.
To send or drive back; to repel from side to side; as flame reverberated in a furnace.

REVERB'ERATE

, v.i.
1.
To be driven back; to be repelled, as rays of light, or sound.
2.
To resound.
And even at hand, a drum is ready brac'd, that shall reverberate all as well as thine.

REVERB'ERATE

,
Adj.
Reverberant.

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