vibratiunclen.
/vʌɪbreɪʃɪˈʌŋk(ə)l/ A minute or slight vibration. Cf. vibration n. 3c.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > a vibration > slight
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vibratiunculation1855
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §2. 58 Diminutive Vibrations, which may also be called Vibratiuncles and Miniatures.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §2. 101 Concerning the Derivation of ideal Vibratiuncles from sensory Vibrations.
1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §3 Our sensations arise from vibrations and our ideas from vibratiuncles or miniature vibrations.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 156 Do you take the soul to be an Eolus's harp, and all the fine things in it, to be vibratiuncles?
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 244 Their hearing or analogous sense is much nicer than ours, collecting the slightest vibratiuncle imparted by other insects, &c. to the air.
1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. viii. §43. 478 Through what vibrations or vibratiuncles that conviction came to him we do not care to enquire.
Derivatives
viˌbratiuncuˈlation n. a vibratiuncle.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > a vibration > slight
vibratiuncle1749
vibratiunculation1855
1855 Coues Dæmon of Darwin 58 (Cent.).
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