CLAP Copy link • CLAP 1. strike, ferire; pulsare (repeatedly): verberare (whip). To clap to the door (in one’s face), fores objicere. To clap the bands together, collidere manus (violently, as an orator does): manus complodere (in approbation, for joy, grief, wonder, etc): plaudere manibus, or plaudere; manu plausum facere (to clap in token of applause). To clap a person or thing, plaudere, applaudere alicui or alicui rei; applaudere et approbare aliquid. To clap the wings, alis plaudere: alas quatere cum clangore. To join to, addere aliquid alicui rei or ad aliquid: adjicere: aliquid alicui rei or ad aliquid: apponere alicui or ad aliquid: imponere aliquid in rem. To clap a ladder against a wall, scalam muro applicare or apponere. To clap chains upon a person, catenas alicui injicere. To clap a guard upon one, custodes alicui addere, indere. To clap a plaster on in wound, vulneri cataplasma imponere. To clap one thing upon another (fasten it), affigere aliquid alicui rei. To clap spurs to a horse, equo calcaria subdere; equum calcaribus concitare; calcaria adhibere or admovere. To ciap a man into prison, in vincula, in carcerem conjicere; in carcerem detrudere. To clap under, subdere, subjicere. To clap a lawsuit on a man’s hack, litem alicui in tendere. impingere. 2. a sort of hammer to strike on a chisel; a mallet, malleus. Sound, strepitus: fremitus, fragor (stronger term): plausus (especially with the hand): crepitus (with the wing). thunder-clap, caeli fragor; fragor caeli or coelestis: tonitrus (tonitrua occurs in the plur., but nowhere the sing. tonitru. Vid: Ramsh., §30, 5): fulmen (the flash of lightning together with a clap of thunder). Mark of approbation (by clapping one’s hands), plausus. (The words are found in this connection and order), plausus clam oresque: collisae manus. ☞ Acclamatio, especially of the people at the appearance of a popular favorite: in the historians only, but in Cic. = mark of disapprobation.