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succussations

succussations is the plural of succussation.

Meaning of succussation

Noun

succussation (countable and uncountable, plural succussations)

  1. (obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting.
    • 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 bladder1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 270
  2. (obsolete) A trot or trotting.
    • 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 […]1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1

Questions about succussations

What is succussations the plural of?
Succussations is the plural of succussation.

Words near succussations in the dictionary

  1. succursals
  2. succus
  3. succus entericus
  4. succuss
  5. succussation
  6. succussations
  7. succussatory
  8. succussed
  9. succusses
  10. succussing
  11. succussion

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