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tripudiation

tripudiation noun: the act of dancing.

Noun

tripudiation (countable and uncountable, plural tripudiations)

  1. (formal, obsolete) The act of dancing.
    • dances to the musicall aires of the cogitations, which is that tripudiation of the Nymphs1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas...
    • Till champagne and tripudiation do their work; and all lie silent, horizontal; passively slumbering, with meed-of-battle dreams!1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Forms of tripudiation

pluraltripudiations

Origin of tripudiation

Latin tripudiatio.

Questions about tripudiation

What does tripudiation mean?
Tripudiation means the act of dancing.
What part of speech is tripudiation?
Tripudiation is a noun.
What is the plural of tripudiation?
The plural of tripudiation is tripudiations.

Words near tripudiation in the dictionary

  1. tripudiary
  2. tripudiate
  3. tripudiated
  4. tripudiates
  5. tripudiating
  6. tripudiation
  7. tripudiations
  8. tripudium
  9. tripuhyite
  10. tripulant
  11. tripulants

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