Re*ver"ber*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverberated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Reverberating.] 1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back;
to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.
Shak.
2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is
reverberated in a furnace.
3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated into
glass." Sir T. Browne.
Re*ver"ber*ate, v. i. 1. To resound; to echo.
2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to
be echoed, as sound.
Re*ver`ber*a"tion (?), n. [CF. F. réverbération.] The act of
reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or
reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the
reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the
reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
Re*ver"ber*a*tive (?), a. Of the nature of reverberation; tending to
reverberate; reflective.
This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above,
as the influence of the mass upon its centers.