v. Obs. rare. [ad. ppl. stem of L. transverberāre, f. TRANS- 1 + verberāre to beat.] trans. To strike through.
1623. Cockeram, Transuerberate, to strike thorow.
1640. G. Watts, trans. Bacon’s Adv. Learn., III. iv. 147. The appetencies of Matter, and the most universall Passions, (which in either Globe are exceeding Potent, and transverberate [L. transverberant] the universall nature of things).
So Transverberation, a striking through.
1881. H. J. Coleridge, Life & Lett. St. Teresa, I. 24. The room in which Teresa received her mystical transverberation—the piercing of her heart by a fiery dart.
