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subsultory, a.|səbˈsʌltərɪ|
[Formed as prec. + -ory.]
= subsultive.
1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death 406 The Inordinate, and Subsultorie, Motion of the Spirits. 1715Phil. Trans. XXIX. 326 Palpitation of the Heart, whose..prodigious subsultory Motion..was easily felt. 1742Hort Instr. Clergy 10, I am levelling this rule against that subsultory way of delivery that rises like a storm..and presently sinks into a dead calm. 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 40 The Numbers ought to be accommodated to the Passion:..they ought..to run somewhat rambling and irregular, and often rapid and subsultory. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 448 Clonus Palpitatio. Palpitation. Subsultory vibration of the heart or arteries. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 683 That subsultory movement from almost passive surveillance to the most intense development of power. 1887Science (U.S.) 20 May 495/2 Within this tract, except near the edges of it, the motion was most conspicuously of subsultory character. 1905Edin. Rev. Apr. 304 Shoals of deep-sea fish, killed by the impact of subsultory water. 1909Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 9/3 A strong subsultory and undulatory shock, lasting six seconds.
absol.1841De Quincey Style i. Wks. 1858 XI. 197 Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous.
So subˈsultorily adv., by sudden bounds or starts; subsulˈtorious a. = subsultory.
1626Bacon Sylva §326 The Spirits doe spread themselues Euen, and moue not *Subsultorily. 1898in Syd. Soc. Lex.
1650H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 75 Meer vagrant imaginations seated in your own *subsultorious and skipjack phansie onely. |