[f. TRUMPET sb.; cf. F. trompeter (14th c. in Godef., Compl.).]
1. intr. To blow or sound a trumpet.
1530. Palsgr., 763/1. I trompet, I blowe or sownde in a trumpet, je sonne vne trompette.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Chron. v. 13. As yf one dyd trompet and synge.
1672. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Rehearsal, IV. i. (Arb.), 91. It [the Play] shall Drum, Trumpet, Shout and Battel, I gad, with any the most warlike Tragœdy we have.
1862. Dickens, Somebody’s Luggage, ii. Practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled.
1913. Sir H. Johnston, Pioneers Australia, iv. 135. The seamen … trumpeted back … in reply.
b. To emit a sound like that of a trumpet; used esp. in reference to the cry of an elephant when enraged or excited; also, to the musical piping of a mosquito or gnat when about to bite.
1828. Capt. Mundy, Pen & Pencil Sk. (1832), I. ii. 112. My elephant suddenly raised his trunk and trumpeted several times.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 258. He … drives off the alarmed animal trumpeting shrilly with rage and pain.
1873. Darwin, Emotions, vi. 168. The keeper ordered the old and the young elephant to trumpet.
1900. Pilot, 22 Sept., 357/2. Anopheles, a mosquito that does not trumpet.
2. trans. a. To sound on a trumpet; to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.
1729. Young, Merchant, II. ix. She trumpets shrill her dread command.
1854. Poultry Chron., II. 84. An old … black cock, who could never utter the least sound without trumpeting a prolonged finale.
1875. Buckland, Log-bk., 355. He seems to have trumpeted the order.
1886. F. Harrison, Choice Bks., ii. 29. A passage of Homer, rolling along in the hexameter or trumpeted out by Pope.
b. fig. To announce or publish as by sound of trumpet; to proclaim, celebrate, or extol loudly; to noise abroad. Also with forth.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. iii. 251. That I loue the Moore,… My … storme of Fortunes, May trumpet to the world. Ibid. (1608), Per., I. i. 145. He must not liue to trumpet foorth my infamie.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., IV. I. (1852), 14. Commenius, the fame of whose worth hath been trumpetted as far as more than three languages could carry it.
1756. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 23 Feb. They trumpeted the story all over the town.
1841. Thackeray, Gt. Hoggarty Diam., ix. This I state not to trumpet my own praises.
1856. Dove, Logic Chr. Faith, III. iii. 148. Atheism may trumpet forth her astounding discovery.
c. To summon or denounce formally (cf. F. trompeter, and HORN v. 5), or to drive away, by sound of trumpet.
1680. Sir R. Southwell, in Cal. Ormonde MSS., IV. 579. The Duchess of Soissons is trumpetted, which is the manner of citation used in like cases…. And if she appear not at the third trumpetting, her crimes and sentences will be pronounced.
1795. Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 52. They drummed and trumpeted the wretches out of their Hall.
