Meaning of succussation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Violent shaking or jolting.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A trot or trotting.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“in order⟳, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm, and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter, to drive⟳ the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder”

“They rode, but authors having not / Determin'd whether pace or trot, / That is to say⟳, whether tollutation, / As they do term't, or succussation […]”

“lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind, which is succussation or trotting”

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