tubicination

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noun

The act or process of sounding a trumpet

OriginLatin tubicinātus →
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Meanings

nountubicination (plural tubicinations)

plural tubicinations

  1. rareThe act or process of sounding a trumpet

    But what can this confounded unnatural noise be?— / All this buxination, and tubicination, / This acclamation, and tympanization?— […]

    1843, G. De Lys, “The Marriage of Belphegor”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 14, page 617
  2. rareThe sound of a trumpet

    The conductor sounded his ram's horn; this was a tubicination the meaning of which had been carefully prescribed in the regulations of the company, and was well understood by the Indians.

    1928, Society of Oklahoma Indians, The American Indian, Volume 3, page 20

Origin

  1. Latintubicinātus“sounded a trumpet”
  2. Englishtubicination

From Latin tubicinātus (“sounded a trumpet”), past participle of tubicinō (“sound a trumpet”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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