tubicination

noun

1. The act or process of sounding a trumpet

   rare

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

2. The sound of a trumpet

   rare

   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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tubicination (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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