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The act of repairing or resorting to a place. [R.] Chaucer. The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses. Clarendon.

Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.

the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. Bacon

ere to-morrow with his best ruff on. Shak. His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff. Howell.

An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. Shak.

h proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish. An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. Dryden.

To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! [Obs.] God shield that it should so befall. Chaucer. God shield I should disturb devotion! Shak.

A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]

Public declamation; oratory.

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.…

An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.

Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious. Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps. Milton.

A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.

An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it. Tush, say they, how should God perceive it Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. lxxiii. 11).

Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.

An exclamation of grief. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

emoved, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity." W. Irving. -- Wassail cup, a cup from which wassail was drunk.

An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.