| 单词 | to rend the welkin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rend the welkin c. in phrases descriptive of loud sounds, as to make the welkin ring, to rend the welkin, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)] flitec900 beme?c1225 thunderc1374 full-sounda1382 claryc1440 reird1508 shout1513 to make the welkin ring1590 rally1728 din1798 alarm1839 trombone1866 clarion1885 blast1931 blare1955 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. D4 As when a fiery exhalation Wrapt in the bowels of a freezing cloude, Fighting for passage, makes the Welkin cracke. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. ii. 1103 O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, Whose hideous ecchoes make the welkin howle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 43 Thy hounds shall make the Welkin answer them. View more context for this quotation 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. 33 One frisks and sings,..and makes the Welkin rore. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 224 Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend. 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 157 The Welkin rings, Men, Dogs, Hills, Rocks, and Woods In the full Consort join. 1814 R. Southey Roderick iii. 368 That shout, Which, like a thunder-peal, victorious Spain Sent through the welkin, rung within his soul Its deep prophetic echoes. 1818 W. Wordsworth Inscr. Hermit's Cell v. 10 When storms the welkin rend. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 77 ‘Live the Fatherland!’ rings responsive, to the welkin. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. i. 15 Away they go full cry, making the welkin ring with the music of their deep-toned notes. 1874 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens II. vii. i. 2 The citizens rent the welkin with their shouts. < as lemmas |
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