Vo-çif'er-ā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. vociferatio, Fr. vocifération, Sp. vociferacion, It. vociferazione.] The act of vociferating; a violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. “Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or pain.” Byron.

Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the hearts of the ignorant, and fill them with a kind of religious horror. Spectator.