palpitatev.
/ˈpalpᵻteɪt/, U.S. /ˈpælpəˌteɪt/ 1.
a. intransitive. Of the heart: to beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly, as the result of exercise, strong emotion, disease, etc. Also (occasionally): to suffer from palpitations.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. sig. A4 To Beate or leape like the heart. Palpitate.
1650 R. Baron Pocula Castalia 99 Think so my constant heart doth palpitate Towards you.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 511 His heart..continued to palpitate some time after it was on the Hangman's knife.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. vii. 112 My heart palpitating with fears of detection.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 80 ‘I do so palpitate,’ observed Miss Squeers.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch viii. lxxx. 583 She was surprised and annoyed to find that her heart was palpitating violently, and that it was quite useless to try after a recovery of her former animation.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems (1997) 279 She puts my senses in a whirl, Weakens my knees and keeps me waiting Until my heart stops palpitating.
1993 G. Roberts Highest Sci. (BNC) 143 A rush of blood went to Rosheen's head as the infection he had implanted did its work. Her heart palpitated.
b. intransitive. gen. To tremble or quiver; to throb. Also figurative.
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1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man I. v. 166 The blue eyes of my angelic girl were fixed on this sweet emblem of herself: ‘How the light palpitates,’ she said, ‘which is that star's life.’
1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 16 Her thin nostrils palpitated.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiii. 31 The air of the sleeping-chamber seemed to palpitate with the hopeless passion of the girls.
1966 E. Amadi Concubine ii. 9 You may hurt my side. It palpitates as if it is ripe with pus.
2001 A. Danchev & D. Todman in Ld. Alanbrooke War Diaries Introd. p. xviii His [sc. Lord Alanbrooke] diary fairly palpitates with exasperation at obtuse politicians.
2. transitive. To cause (the head, etc.) to pulsate rapidly or strongly. Also figurative.
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1735 S. Bowden Tempest in Poet. Ess. II. 72 What dire Confusion o'er the Welkin reigns, Levels the Woods, and palpitates the Plains?
1790 A. M. Johnson Monmouth I. 163 What strange transporting sensations palpitated my heart.
1833 T. Hook Snowdon vii, in Love & Pride II. 274 These..palpitated a bosom pure and at rest from every fiercer passion.
1834 T. H. Chivers Conrad & Eudora ii. i. 26 This fountain, which is stirred to bitter wrath, Which that insatiate wretch so rudely stung, And wounded with the arrows of his lust!—Shall turn an August to his life, and thirst For every drop that palpitates his heart!
1925 Amer. Mercury July 376/2 A young woman gifted in the technic of palpitating her diaphragm and adjacent regions.
1944 K. J. Shapiro Coll. Poems (1978) 80 The swift cathedral palpitates the blood.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 8 May t6 Even if it sometimes dulls the brain, palpitates the heart and generally makes you sick with sheer exhaustion, it is an irresistible event.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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