conclamation

An outcry or shout of many together.

Noun

  1. An outcry or shout of many together.
    • Mute is their sorrow; such a silent woe A dying man's amazed houshold show, Before his funerall conclamation […]. - 1631, Thomas May, Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius...
    • [T]he Romans let their body lie seven days; mean while using their Ablution in warm Water, and their several Conclamations, as they called them, to try if there was any spirit left in them, which might be awaked and...
    • And thus have you the story of Thomas ap Griffith, commonly called the Courteous Enemy; his body, being bravely accompanied, was conveyed to the Abbey of Bardsey, in the county of Caernarvon, and there solemnly...

Origin

From Latin conclamatio.

Forms

conclamations