conclamation

Definitions

An outcry or shout of many together.

rare

Examples

“Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe A dying man's amazed houshold show⟳, Before his funerall conclamation […].”

“[T]he Romans let⟳ their body lie⟳ seven days; mean⟳ while using their Ablution in warm Water, and their several Conclamations, as they called them, to try⟳ if there was any spirit left in them, which might be awaked and recovered to life again. If after the last⟳ Conclamation no sign⟳ of life appeared, then Conclamatum est, there was no Remedy, after this Cry⟳ they carried them forth to their Funeral-Pile.”

“And thus have⟳ you the story of Thomas ap Griffith, commonly called the Courteous Enemy; his body, being bravely accompanied, was conveyed to the Abbey of Bardsey, in the county of Caernarvon, and there solemnly interred, the beholders all, with a universal conclamation, giving an assured testimony of their heart's overflowing sorrow.”

“The aged sisters draw⟳ us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die⟳: over us dead they bend⟳. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last⟳ the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.”

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