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单词 repercuss
释义

repercussadj.

Forms: late Middle English repercusse.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repercussus, repercutere.
Etymology: < classical Latin repercussus, past participle of repercutere repercuss v.
Obsolete. rare.
As past participle: beaten upon.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > exposed to or illumined by
repercuss?1440
sunny?1440
sunned1565
sunshiny1600
sun-clad1637
sun-lighted1737
sunlit1784
unshaded1802
sunlight1819
shadeless1837
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xii. 23 When the mone is daies oold xv And so not repercusse [L. repercussa] as of the sonne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

repercussv.

Brit. /ˌriːpəˈkʌs/, U.S. /ˌripərˈkəs/, /ˌrɛpərˈkəs/
Forms: late Middle English reprecusse, late Middle English–1600s repercusse, 1500s–1600s repercust (past participle), 1600s repercust (past tense), 1600s– repercuss; also Scottish pre-1700 reparcust (past participle), pre-1700 reparcust (past tense), pre-1700 repercust (past tense).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin repercuss-, repercutere.
Etymology: < classical Latin repercuss-, past participial stem of repercutere to drive back, cause to rebound, repel, to reflect (light), to reflect (sound), cause to echo, in post-classical Latin also to return blow for blow (Vetus Latina), and spec. in medical context (a1350 in a British source; 1363 in Chauliac) < re- re- prefix + percutere percuss v. Compare later repercute v.In quot. 1592 at sense 2 after Italian ripercosso (1545 as repercosso in the passage translated), past participle of ripercuotere (see repercute v.).
1. transitive. Chiefly Medicine = repel v. 1. Also: to drive back (air, dust, etc.). Also intransitive and figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel > something impinging or advancing
repercuss?a1425
repulse?a1425
reverberatec1487
rebut1490
repel?1529
rebuff1697
wash1697
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 39v Neþerlez þo [sc. apostemes] þat beþ in þe rotez of þe erez..in no maner ar repercussed [?c1425 Paris be smyȝten aȝeyne; L. repercutiuntur] ne refreyned..bot wiþ al myȝt ar drawen.
1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. ii. xiii. 27 It is the propertye of an hotte Aposteme, eyther to be repercussed, resolued, or maturate.
1569 J. van der Noot Gouernance & Preseruation them that feare Plage sig. Bvv Some Surgeons do mixe vnto this triacle, which I do not like, for the Triacle will repercusse inward agayne the sayde risynge and venemosite.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. vii. 169 The marow or pith..doth repercusse and smite backe the said disease [L. prohibere strumas], so that it shall not arise and grow.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 644 The said tempestuous rumours did strike and repercusse his thoughts inward.
1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) 297 If the Winds blow directly downward, and..force the dust to arise with the Wind, which is repercussed by the Earth.
1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Second Pt. in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 119 The same is often wont to be affected from Issues suddenly stopt, or eruptions of the Skin suddenly repercuss'd.
1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) 283/2 It is necessary..to apply such things to the Eyes, as may repercuss and drive back the Humours offending.
1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) vi. 389 As when the frighted blood through every vein Drives to and fro, propell'd and repercuss'd, By the effluvia of electric fire.
1853 N.Y. Med. Times Dec. 90 We throw back, we repercuss the virus by drying up the virulent source!
1889 C. Creighton Jenner & Vaccination vi. 134 The obvious thing..is his anxiety to bring out the eruption..and to obviate whatever would tend to repress it or ‘repercuss’ it.
2. transitive. Of light: to impinge on, strike (a reflecting surface). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)] > of light
reverberate1561
strikea1586
repercuss1592
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 48 As full of coulers as a Christall glasse, repercust and beaten against with the beames of the sunne [It. dagli solarii radii repercosso].
3.
a. transitive. To reflect (sound); to cause (sound) to reverberate. Also intransitive. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (transitive)] > reverberate or echo
answera1425
redoublea1542
rebound1555
return1557
reply1565
report1589
re-echo1595
repercuss?a1597
render1598
reverberate1603
respeak1604
reverb1608
retort1609
reword1609
revoice1610
refract1621
to give back1889
?a1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (Edinb. Laing 447) l. 89 in Poems (1910) 8 And ay the echo reparcust [1597 Waldegrave repercust] hir diapassoun sound.
1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 469/2 The Object of Hearing is Sound, which is nothing else but a Quality arising from Air or Water, repercussed and broken by a suddain and vehement Concussion.
1799 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (ed. 2) I. 84 The repetitions of all these sounds, repercussed by the distant echos,..resemble the voice of the Mereids.
1808 H. Robertson Gen. View Nat. Hist. Atmosphere I. ii. 62 An echo..has been imagined to be merely the original vibration of the air repercussed from a concave surface.
1906 Ann. Otol., Rhinol. & Laryngol. 15 373 There had been made in the attic of the laboratory a small room.., the walls of which do not repercuss the sound.
b. transitive. To reflect (light, sunbeams). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)]
rebounda1450
reflexc1536
reflect1555
return1557
repercuss1604
retort1609
refract1621
reverberate1638
to throw back1698
flash1716
to give back1831
glint1844
1604 W. Alexander Aurora xxxvii As the Sunne..darting from aboue, Doth parch all things that repercusse his beames.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 64 Perceiving all the subjacent Country (at so smale an horizontal distance) to repercusse such a light as I could hardly looke against.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xiii. 73 The Ray, repercussed or reflected in the perpendiculum is redoubled.
1698 J. Turner Physico-theol. Disc. upon Divine Being iii. 178 The Rays which cause the visible Species, are..certain Particles or Effluvia's darted from a lucid Body, repercussed in their going forth, and reflected variously here and theres.
4. intransitive. To cause or admit of implications or repercussions (repercussion n. 5b); to have an unwanted or unintended effect; to reflect or rebound on something.In early use transitive (passive).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > result [verb (intransitive)] > have an unintended or unwanted effect
repercuss1884
1884 Cycl. Polit. Sci. III. 886/2 The tax imposed on one or many categories of individuals is repercussed on other classes.
1899 Science 16 June 851/2 There exists no fundamental element whose influence is not repercussed on the entire theory of these bodies.
1923 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. 4/2 There is obviously considerable change from generation to generation, but most of this is extra-organismal and only repercusses indirectly, if at all, on the flesh and blood constitution.
1969 F. Halliday in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 323 There are also examples where an initially political campaign by students repercusses back into the campus and detonates an internal revolt within higher education.
1972 Guardian 18 Feb. 13/1 The public crucifixion of a mandarin looks likely to repercuss for years.
1975 J. De Bres tr. E. Mandel Late Capitalism vii. 243 The tendency towards thorough planning and organization within the companies or enterprises of late capitalism necessarily repercusses on the structure of the bourgeois class.
1976 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 3/3 It is a script which the plaintiffs feel cannot do anything but repercuss poorly on their reputation if it is thought that ‘King Kong’ is associated with that.
2004 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 May j1 I'm as interested in Kitchener issues as I am in the issues in Waterloo, because one issue repercusses on the other.

Derivatives

reperˈcussed adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > repelling > repelled (of things)
repercussed?1553
repelled1599
reverberated1615
repulsed1889
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 25 in Shorter Poems (1967) 8 Of reparcust [1579 Edinb. repercust] ayr the eccon cryis. Amang the branchis of the blomed treis.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 247 The noise that is made by the repercussed waters.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xiii. 73 The repercussed Heat is sufficient for all Operations Natural to quicken and encourage them.
1850 A. G. Hull J. Laurie's Homœopathic Domest. Med. (ed. 5) i. 20 Alterations of temperature, exposure to cold or damp, repercussed exanthemata—in fact, anything that causes derangement of the equilibrium of the system may produce fever.
1928 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 103 333 The lengthening reaction appears to be due to the repercussed inhibition from the muscle spindles.
2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 June a15 Clearly, this is a huge national issue with major repercussions, which may explain why you feel so repercussed.
reperˈcussing adj.
ΚΠ
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 175v Medicinez defending apostemacioun bene colding in som maner & repercussing [?c1425 Paris smytinge aȝeyne], as albumina ouorum, i. white of eyren.
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. iv. 194 If the species be beheld by Reflection from any illustrate and repercussing Body, such as the paper, or wall, then must the series or method of the borders of light and shadow be inverted.
1708 Brit. Apollo 10–12 Mar. An Eccho..is caus'd by any..Repercussing Body stopping and reflecting the..Sound.
1844 tr. A. Paré in J. E. Erichsen Observ. Aneurism i. 7 It may..be said that this hardness is owing to the cold and repercussing applications constantly made to such tumours.
1998 C. Bongie Islands & Exiles vi. 199 It is, Quentin tells us, in a description that is itself made up of the repercussing traces of words passed down to him by earlier narrators [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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