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v. t. To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deliberatus, p. p. of deliberare to deliberate; de- + librare to weigh. See Librate. ] 1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. “These deliberate fools.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. [ 1913 Webster ]

Settled visage and deliberate word. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.

4. having awareness of the likely consequences; intentional. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deliberated; p. pr. & vb. n. Deliberating. ] To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deliberatio: cf. F. délibération. ] 1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deliberativus: cf. F. délibératif. ] Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deliberates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. diverberatus, p. p. of diverberare to strike asunder; di- = dis- + verberare. See Verberate. ] To strike or sound through. [ R. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sounding through. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. extuberatus, p. pr. of extuberare to swell; ex out + tuber a swelling. ] To swell out. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. extuberatio. ] Protuberance. [ Obs. ] Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. exuberatus, p. p. of exuberare. See Exuberant, n. ] To abound; to be in great abundance. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indeliberatus. See In- not, and Deliberate. ] Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [ Obs. ] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. Indeliberate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Liberated p. pr. & vb. n. Liberating ] [ L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See Liberal, a., and cf. Deliver. ] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To deliver; free; release. See Deliver. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Chem.) 1. released from chemical combination, or as a consequence of chemical reaction; -- of a gas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. freed from bondage; -- of people.
Syn. -- emancipated, freed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. free from traditional social restraints; as, a liberated lifestyle.
Syn. -- emancipated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. stolen. [ jocose ] [ PJC ]

adj. giving freedom from restriction or restraint.
Syn. -- emancipating, emancipative, freeing. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. liberatio: cf. F. libération. Cf. Livraison. ] The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending, or serving, to liberate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Previous deliberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. protuberare; pro forward + tuber a hump, protuberance. See Tuber. ] To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. Cooke (1615). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To deliberate again; to reconsider. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod. ] 1. Reverberant. [ Obs. ] “The reverberate hills.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, like an arch, reverberates
The voice again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [ Obs. ] “Reverberated into glass.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To resound; to echo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. F. réverbération. ] The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, produces reverberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reverberatory furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. subérate. ] (Chem.) A salt of suberic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. super- + tuber. ] (Bot.) The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. transverberatus, p. p. of transverberare to strike or pierce through. ] To beat or strike through. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. [ L. verberatus, p. p. of verberare to beat, from verber a lash, a whip. ] To beat; to strike. [ Obs. ] “The sound . . . rebounds again and verberates the skies.” Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]