Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The giving forth of a sound; sounding.

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Examples

  • What about " sonation " — woodpeckers drumming on dead wood?

    When Sounds Make Sense Alexander Theroux 2010

  • First, the imper - sonation of Immortality, whether it can be done, and what reality there is in the artist's portrait of her.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

  • Believing as he does that imper - sonation makes the emotional impact stronger and that

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas G. M. A. GRUBE 1968

  • Plato applies it to literary forms, and in so doing he gives a new meaning to mimesis — that of imper - sonation.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas G. M. A. GRUBE 1968

  • He's pulling off his best imper - sonation of Greg Maddux.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • But in order to give you the best assistance I can, I will, in 10 days from hence (when I shall be in Baltimore) send you the Pittsburg pricebook, compiled from that of Philadelphia, by carpenters established there from Philadelphia, and printed under their sonation, & in the mean time I will also Compile from a great number of accounts settled by me with the mechanics here, a partial list of prices which may be useful to You I am with the truest esteem Yr

    68 Letters to and from Jefferson, 1805-1817 1817

  • Proviso. plication for such a license or falsely impersonates the person named in such an application, or procures such false imper - sonation, whether of himself or of another, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than two weeks nor more than two years, or both; except that for an offence of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor committed within a period of six years immediately following his final conviction of a like offence by a court or magistrate of the commonwealth, a person shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than two years.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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