[ad. L. conclāmātion-em, n. of action f. conclāmāre: see prec.]
1. A loud calling out of many together; esp. of loud lamentation for the dead.
1627. May, Lucan, II. 23. Such a silent woe … Before his funerall conclamation.
1705. T. Greenhill, Art Embalming, 57 (T.). The Romans us’d Conclamation, or a general Outcrie, set up at equal Intervals before the Corps, by Persons who waited there on Purpose.
1836. Lane, Mod. Egypt. (1849), II. xv. 286. Many of the females of the neighbourhood, hearing the conclamation, come to unite with them in this melancholy task [bewailing the dead].
† 2. A shout of approval or disapproval. Obs.
1651. Howell, Venice, 115. This Speech was answer’d with applauses and wonderfull conclamations on all sides.
1680. Allen, Peace & Unity, 94. The fore-mentioned repetitions, abruptions, responses, and conclamations.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xxii. 116. They were continually insulted with loud peals of hisses and conclamations of down with the Roundheads. Ibid., xxxviii. 206. Amidst the insults and conclamations of a rascally mob.
