English

Noun

succussation ‎(plural succussations)

1. (obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:

     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 bladder

2. (obsolete) A trot or trotting.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     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 [...]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

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