Obs. [ad. L. conquassātiōn-em, n. of action from conquassāre: see prec.] Severe shaking; agitation, concussion.
a. 1626. Middleton, Quiet Life, III. xxi. I have had a conquassation in my cerebrum ever since the disaster.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 324. Wind is generated by the Conquassation of Phlegm.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 22. A violent conquassation of the foliage above.
1782. A. Monro, Compar. Anat. (ed. 3), 49. All its blood is sent into the vena portarum, and has a perpetual conquassation.