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VIBRATED.
9. To give a vibratory molioii to (something)
to cause to move to and fro or up and down, esp.
to put in vibration.
with a quick motion ;
a 1700 EvELVS Diary 19 Sept. 1657, 2 Virginian rattlesnakes
.. swiftly vibrating and shaking their tailes. I7«8
Young Lme Fame vi. 107 With skill she vibrates her eternal
tongue, For ever most divinely in the wrong. 1796 Mohse -
/iiKrr. Gtog. I. 221 Their tails terminate with a hard horny ,
spur, whicS they vibrate very quick when disturbed. i8ja I
T. Tavior AfuleiKs vii. 145 Though I vibrated my pendulous
lips M-ith excessive rotundity. 1879 G. Psescott S».
Ttlttkcnc 115 Bars, which, when to be vibrated by the
action of heat, are made of brass, a 18S7 C. C. Abbott
yalMralisfs RamHts 303 The last spotted adder . . vibrated
the tail in a very marked manner.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
181S Keats Cdt to Afolio v, Each vibrates the string That
with its tjTant temper best accords. 187S Lowell fVonistforth
Pr. Wks. 1890 IV. 365 He saw man such as he c.in
only be when he is vibrated by the orgasm of a national
emotion. 1876 — Among my Bks. Ser. 11. 165 The ' Muiopotmos
' pleases us all the more that it vibrates in us a string
of classical association.
O. refl. To bring into a certain state by or after
vibration. rare~'^.
a tSu PoE Talcs, Moiwsfi Una (ad fin.), That feeble thrill
had vibrated itself into quiescence.
Hence Vi-bratod ///. a. ; Vi-bratlng vbl. sb.
1669 Aidr. Young Gentry Eng. 58 The pale face, vibrated
eies, tnequal pulse, -shew this to be under an acute feaver.
1743 Emerson Fluxions 303 To find the Time of a Pendulun?s
vibrating in the Arch of a Cycloid. 188a Bain lilill
iii. 133 There wasa clear walk, which was his principal place
for ' vibrating ', as he [Bentham] called his indoor exercise.
V'i'bratlle(v3i"bratil, -3il),a. [ad. mod.L. *otbratilis
: see Vibrated. + -ilb. Cf. F. vibratile^
1. Of the nature of vibration;
vibratory.
marked or charac-
terized by vibration ;
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