clarioned
clarioned is the simple past and past participle of clarion.
Meaning of clarion
Verb
clarion (third-person singular simple present clarions, present participle clarioning, simple past and past participle clarioned)
- To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
- To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
- His deep voice clarioned the words and he paused, hearing them whisper away into their last faint echoes in the organ loft.1946, Rebecca Rogers, They Ask for Bread, New York, N.Y.: Rockport Press Publishers, →OCLC, page 16
- To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
- Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
- Sir Knight, thy glory clarioneth the heavens.1833, [Richard Henry Horne], “Of Composers, and Instrumental Performers”, in Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public, London: Effingham Wilson, […], →OCLC...
- To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
- [T]hou, young-bodied morn, / In-ushered by the puffed winds clarioning, / No bond can bind.1883, [Ronald Roth], “The Judgment of Tithonus”, in Edgar or the New Pygmalion; and The Judgment of Tithonus, Madras, Tamil Nadu: Higginbotham and Co. […], →OCLC, scene ii, page 23
Questions about clarioned
- What is clarioned the simple past and past participle of?
- Clarioned is the simple past and past participle of clarion.
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