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▪ I. ovation, n.1|əʊˈveɪʃən|
[ad. L. ovātiōn-em, lit. rejoicing, n. of action f. ovāre, to exult, rejoice.]
1. Rom. Hist. A lesser triumph characterized by less imposing ceremonies than the triumph proper, and granted to a commander for achievements considered insufficient to entitle him to the distinction of the latter. Also, allusively.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 367 The triumphe wes denyit to him; yit becaus he put away the schame and dishonoure that fell afore be necligence of Sempronius, he gat the loving of ovacioun. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 265 At the second Triumph called the Ovation, he onely sacrificed a Mutton, which the Romans call in their tongue Ovem, and therefore it was called Ovation. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §2 Rest not in an Ovation, but a Triumph over thy Passions. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 348/1 When a general, without fighting, gained his point by treaty and the force of persuasion, the law decreed him this honour, called ovation, which had..more of the appearance of a festival than of war. 1841Brewster Mart. Sc. iii. iv. (1856) 112 His was the unpretending ovation of success, not the ostentatious triumph of ambition. 1842Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) III. xlvi. 322 He entered Rome with the ceremony of an ovation, walking on foot according to the rule, instead of being drawn in a chariot in kingly state, as in the proper triumph.
†2. Exultation. Obs.
1649Lovelace Poems 122 When his fair Murdresse shall not gain one groan, And He expire ev'n in Ovation. 1659Hammond On Ps. xc. Paraphr. 453 We may have some matter of ovation and rejoycing. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 117 It operates primarily..upon the Stomach..raising up the Spirits into a kind of Ovation. 1818Milman Samor 306 And bounds in wild ovation down the vale.
3. transf. An enthusiastic reception by an assembly or concourse of people with spontaneous acclamations and expressions of popularity; a burst of enthusiastic applause.
1831Southey in Q. Rev. XLIV. 299 Gale Jones the veteran seditionist, whom Sir Francis Burdett so unkindly disappointed of an ovation in the year 1812. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 10 July 27/1 The ovations to the artists..were highly complimentary. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 87 He [Pole] still clung to his conviction that..he had but himself to set his foot upon the shore to be received with an ovation. 1885Durham Univ. Jrnl. 27 June 132 Dr. Stainer received the ovation that was his due.
Hence oˈvation v. trans. colloq., to give an enthusiastic reception to; oˈvational a., of or pertaining to an (ancient Roman) ovation; resembling or in the nature of an ovation; oˈvationary a., of the nature of an ovation.
1894Punch 26 May 245/1 Druriolanus, watching the proceedings from a stall,..was of course recognised, and ovationed. 1868Milman St. Paul's xviii. 474 Before their ovational pomps. 1893J. H. Turner Hist. Brighouse 241 Charles..received an ovationary welcome as king. 1928Music & Lett. July 235 The ovational ecstasy is not essentially connected with the musical impression.
▪ II. † oˈvation, n.2 Obs. rare—0.
[f. L. ōvum egg.]
1656Blount Glossogr., Ovation, the season when hens lay eggs, or a laying of eggs. |