reverberant, a.
(rɪˈvɜːbərənt)
[a. F. réverbérant (= Sp. and Pg. reverb-, It. riverberante), or ad. L. reverberant-em, pres. pple. of reverberāre to reverberate.]
1. Her. Of a lion's tail: Turned up like the letter S, with the end outwards.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 42 Their tayles forked, nowed, resignante, reuerberante.., and countercoloured. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. vii. §10 A Lion rampant regardant, the tail reverberant or beaten back, or reboundant, as having beaten it to his back, and it hath rebounded again from thence. [Cf. Berry Encycl. Her. s.v. Reboundant.] |
2. Reverberating; resonant.
| 1807 J. Barlow Columb. ix. 5 Like one surrounding sky Lamp'd with reverberant fires. 1847 Longfellow Ev. ii. ii. 57 Multitudinous echoes awoke and died..Beneath the reverberant branches. 1887 Hall Caine Deemster xxxvi, So reverberant [was] the air, that they could hear the man's footsteps on the stony hillside. |
Hence reˈverberantly adv., in a reverberant manner.
| 1961 in Webster. 1976 Gramophone Oct. 644/1 He is made to stand out too reverberantly against the street-vendors' cries in Act 2. 1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar., We've come to expect strong personalities in female C & W singers. Dolly Parton is the buxom, reverberantly mature earth mother. |