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 orjolting . - 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
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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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