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motitation rare.|məʊtɪˈteɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. mōtitāre, freq. of mōt-, movēre to move: see -ation.]
A quivering movement.
1641Bp. Hall Serm. Lent Wks. 1837 V. 434 What shall we say to those men..that love to dance upon a quaking earth? yea, that affect to be actors in these unkindly motitations? 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 67 If you rest a trembling Head upon a cushion, you shall soon stay the trembling, and free it from that motitation. 1884J. Payne 1001 Nights VIII. 105 With Cairene motitations and Yemani wrigglings..and Hindi torsions. |