clarion
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.Examples: "The clarion’s call to action has been heard."; "Then ſtrait commands that at the warlike ſound / Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard / His mighty Standard; […]"; "And like a silver clarion rung / The accents of that unknown tongue, / Excelsior!"historicalpoetic
2. (by extension)Examples: "Others [i.e., other birds] on ground / Walk'd firm; the creſted Cock whoſe clarion ſounds / The ſilent hours, and th' other whoſe gay Traine / Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue / Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes."; "And his this Drum, vvhoſe hoarſe heroic baſe / Drovvns the loud Clarion of the braying Aſs."; "The cock's ſhrill clarion, or the ecchoing horn, / No more ſhall rouſe them from their lovvly bed."broadlypoetic
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5. (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.Synonyms: clarichord, rest, sufflue
verb (English)
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2. (transitive)Examples: "His deep voice clarioned the words and he paused, hearing them whisper away into their last faint echoes in the organ loft."; "He [Martin Luther King Jr.] clarioned a call to action that was heard wherever Afro-Christians could be found (and beyond, if one recalls Pentecostalism)."; "All around me the tamaracks, alder birches and willows would send up amber and golden flares clarioning the winter; […]"figurativelyraretransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "Sir Knight, thy glory clarioneth the heavens."alsofigurativelyraretransitive
4. (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.Examples: "[T]hou, young-bodied morn, / In-ushered by the puffed winds clarioning, / No bond can bind."; "We dogs are all a-mourning; but thou [a rooster] clappest thy wings and clarionest thy loudest and treadest hen after hen."; "Grey dawn is over, Chrysilla, and ere now the morning cock clarioning leads on the envious Lady of Morn."intransitiverare
Definition source: Wiktionary