conclamation

conclamation

English

Etymology

From Latin conclamatio.

Noun

conclamation (plural conclamations)

1. (rare) An outcry or shout of many together.
   • 1631, Thomas May, Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar, The Second Book:

     Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe

     A dying man's amazed houshold show,

     Before his funerall conclamation […] .

   • 1722, Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume X, Book XXXXIII, Chapter iii:

     [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.

   • 1822, December, "Nugæ Cambricæ: Memoir of Sir Rice ap Thomas," The Scots Magazine:

     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.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:

     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.