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caprizant

caprizant adjective: having irregular, leaping beats.

Adjective

caprizant (comparative more caprizant, superlative most caprizant)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Having irregular, leaping beats.
    • The caprizant Pulse is to be perceived in the upper or lower Part, but hardly at all in the Middle, from an Aneurism, Tumor, &c.1757, Herman Boerhaave, Dr. Boerhaave's Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic
    • T. Dia. Dico that the pulse of this gentleman is the pulse of a man who is not well. Mr. Dia. Good. T. Dia. That it is duriusculus, not to say durus. Mr. Dia. Very well. T. Dia. Irregular. Mr. Dia. Bene. T. Dia. And even a little caprizant.1879, Molière [pseudonym; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], translated by Charles Heron Wall, The Dramatic Works of Molière: Tr. Into English Prose

Forms of caprizant

comparativemore caprizant
superlativemost caprizant

Questions about caprizant

What does caprizant mean?
Caprizant means having irregular, leaping beats.
What part of speech is caprizant?
Caprizant is an adjective.

Words near caprizant in the dictionary

  1. capripoxviruses
  2. Capriquarian
  3. capris
  4. Caprisun
  5. Caprivi Strip
  6. caprizant
  7. capro-
  8. caproaldehyde
  9. caproate
  10. caproates
  11. caprock

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