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remurmur, v. Chiefly poet.|rɪˈmɜːmə(r)|
[ad. L. remurmurāre: see re- and murmur v.]
1. intr.
a. To give back or give forth a murmuring sound; to resound with murmurs.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 667 The Realms of Mars remurmured all around. 1718Motteux Quix. (1733) II. 276 A pleasant Rivulet..remurmurs over the whitest Pebbles. 1747T. Gibbons Elegy Col. Gardiner v, Heav'ns high Crystal Domes remurmur with the Sound. 1870Bryant Iliad II. xxi. 279 The banks around Remurmured shrilly.
b. To answer with murmurs to a sound.
1697Dryden æneid xi. 695 A jarring Sound..Like that of Swans remurm'ring to the Floods. 1703Pope Thebais 166 Eurota's banks remurmur'd to the noise. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. i. 34 Yonder cave, Whose vaults remurmur to the roaring wave.
c. Of sounds: To echo in murmurs.
1717Pope Iliad x. 563 A low groan remurmur'd through the shore. 1790A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 17 Crying and sighing Remurmured through the glen.
2. trans. To repeat in murmurs.
1704Pope Winter 64 The trembling trees..Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. 1789J. White Earl Strongbow I. 202 The woods, the valleys, the mountains around..daily remurmur the effusions of my misery.
Hence reˈmurmuring ppl. a.
1740Somerville Hobbinol ii. 464 While thy remurm'ring Streams Danc'd by, well pleas'd. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 608 Deep remurmuring cords Of th' ancient harp. |