repercussive

comparative more repercussive · superlative most repercussive

1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

   Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.

   1728, William Pattison, Verses on the Fifth of November

2. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.

   Rages loud the repercussive roar.

   a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

3. obsoleteRepellent; driving back.

   Blood is stanched[…] by astringent and repercussive medicines.

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

plural repercussives

1. obsoleteA repellent.

   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

   a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC