单词 | rethunder |
释义 | rethunderv. 1. intransitive. To make a loud, echoing sound like that of thunder; to resound. Frequently poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] > reverberate or echo aqueathOE again-sounda1382 replya1393 answera1425 rolla1522 rebellow1590 re-echo1590 redouble1595 surrebound?1611 speaka1616 rethunder1716 reverb1796 1716 F. Chute Beauty & Virtue 7 Cannons, big with Death, re-thunder on the Skies. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 53 Rethunder'd Hell, and darted all her Fires. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 98 While harsh, the huge Machine shot loud rethundering past. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 58 And now, ere the din rethunders, the youth Invokes the great name. 1855 J. Nisbet in F. Soulé et al. Ann. San Francisco iii. 636 The boom of a cannon-shot is heard, which thunders and re-thunders among the cliffs of Clark's Point. 1902 B. Carman in Cent. Mag. Aug. 571/1 The word that lifts the purple shaft Of crocus and of hyacinth Is more to me than platitudes Rethundering from groin and plinth. 1966 E. Linklater Terrible Freedom 101 A tumult of applause rethundered from the roof. 2. transitive. To utter or repeat (words) in a loud, echoing manner; to declaim forcefully for a second or further time. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > harangue > declaim (something) again rethunder1814 1814 W. Dobson Kunopædia 71 Ware chase... To the tune of which [words], re-thundered in his ears, he [sc. a spaniel] must have this vice..most effectually flogged out of him. 1855 Wide-awake Gift 68 It has not, among us, dared..to re-thunder the motto of that Austrian bravo of the ‘Holy Alliance’. 1893 Advance (Chicago) 15 June In that thinking which he kept up while you were rethundering Cicero's orations against Catiline. 1910 J. G. Dale Mexico & our Mission vi. 103 Isaiah's warning is thundered and re-thundered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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