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† subˈsult, v. Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. subsultāre, frequent. of subsilīre, f. sub- sub- 26 + salīre to leap.]
intr. To hop, jump about. Hence subsulˈtation, hopping, jumping up and down; subˈsulting ppl. a.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Subsult, to leap or hop under or about.
1650H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 71 The word σκιρτηδον (which implies a *Subsultation, or Skipping this way and that way)..seems to allude to..Fire⁓crackers and Squibs rather than Cannons or Carbines. 1659― Immort. Soul iii. xii. 452 If the meer motion of the material Aire caused the subsultation of the string tuned Unison. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 114 Fortuitous Dancings or Subsultations of the Spirits.
1670Phil. Trans. V. 1084 In those Earth-quakes..a *subsulting perpendicular motion. 1679Locke in H. R. F. Bourne Life (1876) I. 449, I found a subsulting something like the strokes of a pulse. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 145 Our rough and subsalient or subsulting Style of our uncouth Phraseological Latin. |