A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Repercussio(u)n, n. [e.m.E. repercussyon (in medical use) driving away by application of remedies (1541), recoil (1553), echo (1595), in sense a below (1601), F. répercussion (1314 in Larousse), L. repercussiōn-, n. of action f. repercutere Repercus v.] a. The power of a thing to force back an advancing mass, as the sea. b. The reverberation (of a sound). —a. 1531 Bell. 1531 Boece I lii.
This goume is generat of see froith, quhilk is cassin up be continewal repercussion of craggis aganis the see wallis —b. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 201.
That all the roches rang, Throuch repercussioun of thare suggurit sang
