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▪ I. re-ˈecho, n.
[f. next, or f. re- + echo n.]
An echo; also, a second or repeated echo.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv. 75 The hills and vallies here and there resound With re-ecchoes of the deepe-mouth'd hound. 1828–32Webster, Re-echo, the echo of an echo. 1862Rep. Ecclesiol. Soc. 20 He was glad to hear Mr. Digby Wyatt's re-echo of the President's aspirations. 1895J. A. Beet New Life in Christ ii. x. 79 The re-echo of this voice in our own spirit.
▪ II. re-ˈecho, v.
[f. re- + echo v.]
1. intr. To echo (again), resound:
a. of a sound, noise, or cry.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 38 A deadly shrieke..That through the wood re-echoed againe. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 472 Sobs of joy re-echoed through the bower. 1740Pitt æneid xi. 641 A thousand notes re-echoing thro' the wood. 1801Southey Thalaba xi. xix, The thunder of the avalanche Re-echoes far behind. 1865F. Boyle Dyaks of Borneo 51 The crash of some giant branch..re-echoes widely for the moment.
b. of places. Const. to, with.
a1599Spenser F.Q. vii. vi. 52 All the woods and dales..Did ring againe, and loud re-echo to the skie. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock v. 86 With starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 64 The city re-echoed with shouts of joy, and flourishing of trumpets. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. v. Devil's Bridge, The rocks re-echoed with peals of laughter.
2. trans.
a. To echo back; to return (a sound), reverberate, multiply by repetition.
1595Chapman Ovid's Banq. Sence E 2 [Echo] the selfe same way shee came doth make retreate, And so effects the sounde reecchoed. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. (1712) 32 Thunder, whose sound is so great and terrible, because it is re-ecchoed from the arched roof of Heaven. 1757Gray Bard 54 Severn shall reecho with affright The shrieks of death. 1784Cowper Task i. 343 The consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems! 1814Scott Wav. xlvi, The Highlanders set up a tremendous yell, which was re-echoed by the heights behind them.
fig.1847Longfellow Ev. ii. v. 5 The streets still re-echo the names of the trees of the forest. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 247 The many peaks in which the structure ascends, and..the pinnacles which, as it were, repeat and re-echo them into the sky.
b. To repeat like an echo.
1636Massinger Bashf. Lover iv. iii, The princess' name, Matilda, oft re-echoed! 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, ‘In this chamber’, re-echoed Vivaldi, in a voice of desperation. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 85 Those acclamations were reechoed by the voice of the capital and of the nation. 1875T. Hill True Ord. Stud. 130 Those who still re-echo Ricardo and Malthus.
Hence re-ˈechoed ppl. a.; re-ˈechoing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Florio, Ribombo, a hollow re-ecchoyng. 1668H. More Div. Dial. v. xxxviii. (1713) 516 There was a re-echoing noise round about the Heavens. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §37. 160 Ravished with the Re-ecchoing of its own Harmony. 1801Southey Thalaba v. xxvi, When the long re-echoing ceased. 1810― Kehama i. iii, Rising over all..Is heard the echoed and re-echoed name. |