Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trot or trotting.
  • noun A shaking; succussion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A trot or trotting.
  • noun A shaking; succussion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete Violent shaking or jolting.
  • noun obsolete A trot or trotting.

Etymologies

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From Medieval Latin succussatio, from the past participle stem of Latin succussare, frequentative of succutere, from sub- + quatere ("shake").

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Examples

  • Tollulation and succussation are only Latin words for ambling and trotting; though I believe both were natural amongst the old

    Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646

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