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tolutation

tolutation noun: a pacing or ambling.

Noun

tolutation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A pacing or ambling.
    • whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is tolutation or ambling, or per diametrum, lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of tolutation

From Latin tolutim (“on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet”), akin to tollere (“to lift up”). Compare Icelandic tölt.

Questions about tolutation

What does tolutation mean?
Tolutation means a pacing or ambling.
What part of speech is tolutation?
Tolutation is a noun.

Words near tolutation in the dictionary

  1. toluols
  2. toluquinone
  3. toluric acid
  4. toluric acids
  5. tolus
  6. tolutation
  7. tolutiloquence
  8. toluyl
  9. toluylene
  10. toluylic acid
  11. toluyls

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