Repercussive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repercussive \Re`per*cuss"ive\, n.
     A repellent. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Repercussive \Re`per*cuss"ive\ (-k?s"?v), a. [Cf. F.
     r['e]percussif.]
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     1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending
        back; causing to reverberate.
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              Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. --W.
                                                    Pattison.
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     2. Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and
        repercussive medicines." --Bacon.
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     3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the
        repercussive roar." --Thomson.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "repercussive":
     booming, bouncing, bounding, echoic, echoing, growling, lingering,
     persistent, reboant, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling,
     reechoing, resilient, resounding, reverberant, reverberating,
     reverberatory, rumbling, sounding, springing, thundering,
     undamped