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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