palpitationn.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 128^v (MED) Gesse..is hardnez of palpitacioun [L. palpitationis], i. stirryng, after Auicen.

c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 188 For the suffocacion of the modir, lat hir receyue þe smoke of turpentyne laid upon the coles þorow hir mouth; for p'apitacion of the modir, lat hir receyue it beneyth forth.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B3^v If..a man would..lay a heauy pound stone on his breast, for staying and holding downe that wanton palpitation.

1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. x. 448 If women haue an ague, and the same accompanied with head-ach & much twinkling or inordinat palpitation of the eies.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 273 Palpitation of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 66 When any parts of their members suffered a palpitation or leaping they foretold something prosperous or sad to happen.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 47 Her wishing Bosom heaves With Palpitations wild.

1786 J. Ledyard Let. 8 Aug. in Journey through Russia (1966) 103 It..has eventually rendered me so hardy as to meet either without an extra palpitation.

1826 Lancet 22 July 521/2 There is palpitation, which the patient is often sensible of by his feelings, and which can be readily felt when the hand is placed over that region.

1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ii. 53 Other emotions cause that extreme rapidity and violence of action which we call palpitation.

1933 Mod. Psychologist Nov. 262/1 By producing palpitation of the heart..and the other countless symptoms of stage fright, the artist has achieved an extenuating circumstance which completely exonerates him, if he does not appear at his best.

1968 B. England Figures in Landscape 47 His heart churned and leaped in his rib-cage, terrifying him with the force of its palpitations.

1990 T. J. Powell & S. J. Enright Anxiety & Stress Managem. (BNC) 53 Out of the blue, at a business meeting you had a ‘panic attack’, characterized by hyperventilation and palpitations.

1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo v. 426 The reason of this Christian Charity, or Communion, is as far above the natural, as Christ himself was above Nature, this requires an equal beating of all pulses, that as Fellow-Members we have a Homogenial sence, and palpitation.

1778 F. Burney Let. 27 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 113 Mrs. Thrale..felt herself in a little palpitation for me.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xli. 28 She heard a new strange sound among the leaves... Sometimes it was a palpitation, sometimes a flutter; sometimes it was a sort of gasp or gurgle.

1957 L. Durrell Justine i. 46 In autumn the female bays turn to uneasy phosphorus and after the long chafing days of dust one feels the first palpitations of the autumn, like the wings of a butterfly fluttering to unwrap themselves.

2002 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 29 Nov. 4 Most of the time it [sc. the engine] runs smoothly and gear changes are done seamlessly, however, there was the odd occasion when I felt a palpitation from under the bonnet.