v. [f. L. verberāt-, ppl. stem of verberāre to beat, flog, f. verber a lash, scourge, blow. Cf. It. verberare, Sp. and Pg. verberar, obs. F. verberer.]
1. trans. a. To strike so as to produce a sound. rare.
1587. Mirr. Mag., Albanact, lxxv. The sounde that both by sea and land out flies, Reboundes againe, and verberates the skies.
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. VIII. 114. Hearing is made when the aire betwixt the speaker and hearer is verberated in a circulation.
b. To beat or strike so as to cause pain, esp. by way of punishment.
1625. Shirley, Love Tricks, III. v. You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Verberate, to beat, punish or strike.
1657. Abp. Sancroft, Mod. Pol. (ed. 7), B 7. He feels sometimes, those Bosome-quarrels that verberate and wound his Soul.
1873. Leland, Egypt. Sketch-Bk., 201. So the native verberated him till he reverberated.
1880. Daily Tel., 14 Oct., 5. It was proved … that he had been verberated to this extent while with his regiment.
† c. To beat or whip up (a substance). Obs.–1
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 648. Oyl is assumed, verberated, and washed in Fountain-water.
2. intr. To vibrate or quiver.
1755. T. H. Croker, Orl. Fur., XXXIV. l. A fragrant breeze … Made the air trem’lous verberate [It. tremolar] around.
Hence Verberating ppl. a.
1867. J. B. Rose, trans. Virgil’s Æneid, 338. Crooked beak and verberating wings.
