v. [f. L. calcitrāt- ppl. stem of calcitrā-re to strike with the heels, kick, f. calc-em heel; cf. obs. F. calcitrer (Cotgr.).] trans. and intr. To kick.
1623. Cockeram, Calcitrate, to kicke, or wince.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 179. Calcitrate, kick.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xiii. (1737), 54. The Filly … began to spurn it, to calcitrate it.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. 242. They erect an idol … which the succeeding generations, each for itself, calcitrates and heels over.
