repercussive

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English

Adjective

repercussive (comparative more repercussive, superlative most repercussive)

  1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
    • 1728, William Pattison, Verses on the Fifth of November:
      Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.
  2. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.
  3. (obsolete) Repellent; driving back.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      Blood is stanched […] by astringent and repercussive medicines.

Noun

repercussive (plural repercussives)

  1. (obsolete) A repellent.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis , “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. ”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. , London: I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, , published 1629, →OCLC:
      rheums and defluxions, which if you apply a strong repercussive to the place affected , and do not take away the cause of the disease , will shift and fall straightways to another joint or place

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “repercussive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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