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† succuˈssation Obs.
[ad. L. *succussātio, -ōnem (altered in med.L. to succursātio in the sense ‘trotting’), n. of action f. succussāre, f. succuss- (see succuss). Cf. F. succussation (Cotgr.).]
Shaking up, violent shaking, jolting.
1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. ii. 126 That succussation of the Lungs and agitation of the Midriff. 1682Weekly Memorials 231 That motion which does not affect our bodies with Succussation..is esteemed rest. 1706Reneu Let. in C. Wordsworth Scholæ Acad. (1877) 297 The succussation of your Horse is so great, only to come to london upon him. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxii, The succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter. 1774A. Campbell Lexiph. (ed. 4) 17, I suffered from some artificial excoriations which I had contracted..by the severe succussations of a conductitious steed.
b. Trotting (of a horse). Cf. 1706, 1774 above.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vi. 193 Lifting one foot before, and the crosse foot behinde, which is succussation or trotting. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 48 Whether Pace or Trot, (That is to say, whether Tolutation, As they do term't, or Succussation). 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 120 His horses grievous succussation Had so excoriat his foundation. |