[f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To make a clamor; to shout, or utter loud and continued cries or calls; to raise an outcry, make a noise or din of speech. Said of persons, animals, and instruments of noise.
c. 1400. Test. Love, I. (1560), 277 b/1. Thilke persons … drawen also the feeble witted people … to clamure and to crye on matters that they stirred.
1530. Palsgr., 485/2. I clamer, or krye out with a loude voyce, je mescrye.
1605. Shaks., Macb. II. iii. 65. The obscure Bird clamor’d the liue-long Night.
1727. Thomson, Summer, 1656. The Quail clamours for his running mate.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos, I. xli. 355. The London mob clamoured in fury without.
b. To raise an outcry against.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts xviii. 6 (R.). When they clamoured agaynste hym.
1681–6. J. Scott, Chr. Life (1747), III. 209. When therefore their Conscience begins to clamour against their Wickedness … the Mercy of God is the usual Sanctuary they fly to.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 380. Many persons were, from mere stupidity and obstinacy, disposed to clamour against the innovation, simply because it was an innovation.
2. intr. To raise an outcry for; to seek, demand, or call importunately for, or to do a thing.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxi. 109. Very absurd for men to clamor as they doe, for the Liberty they so manifestly enjoy.
1752. Johnson, Rambler, No. 195, ¶ 5. They … clamoured vehemently for the prologue.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 756. The Catholics clamoured for a free press under Charles the Second.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), III. xiv. 339. If the crop was late, men were no doubt eagerly clamouring to go home and reap each man his own field.
3. trans. † a. To disturb with clamor; to din.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Counsel (Arb.), 329. Let them not come … in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
1642. Pinke, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., II. 280, III. 299. The Disciples when in danger of drowning clamoured our Saviour with ‘Master, carest thou not that we perish?’
1649. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), III. 49. Legions of women went down to clamour the House for his enlargement.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1621. Clamouring thir god with praise, who had made thir dreadful enemy thir thrall.
b. With advb. compl.: To move or drive by clamoring out of, into; to put down by clamor.
1646. J. Maine, Sermon conc. Unity (1647), 36. To … clamour down all the primitive Truths for some Generations taught among them.
1693. South, Serm. (1823), I. 408. We may much more easily think to clamour the sun and moon out of their courses.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 132. They … laugh at him, and hoot him, until … he is clamoured down and retires of himself.
1888. G. Mayes, in Pall Mall Gaz., 8 June, 2/2. The public have been clamoured by many well-intentioned people into a belief that they have discovered a panacea for intemperance.
4. trans. To utter or assert clamorously.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), II. vii. 127. The imperialist cardinals, impatient before, clamoured that the evil had been caused by the dilatory timidity.
1859. Tennyson, Merlin & Vivien, 621. Is it clamour’d by the child, Or whisper’d in the corner?
1863. Longf., Wayside Inn, Birds Killingw., 14. Hungry crows … Clamoured their piteous prayer incessantly.
