verberate

From Latin verberatus, past participle of verberare (“to beat”), from verber (“a lash, a whip”).

verberate (third-person singular simple present verberates, present participle verberating, simple past and past participle verberated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hit; to beat; to strike
   • a. 1610, unknown author, The Mirror for Magistrates:

     The sound […] rebounds again and verberates the skies.

   • 1631, James Shirley, Love Tricks, act 3 scene 5:

     You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity

   • 1840, J. A. Simons, Meddlings with the Muse:

     Full well I heed the verberating chime,
     Which comes like music on the ear to tell
     It is the anticipated trysting time

• reverberate
• verberation

• “verberate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• reverbate, vertebrae, vertebræ

verberāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of verberō

verberate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of verberar combined with te