Obs. [ad. L. *succussātio, -ōnem (altered in med.L. to succursātio in the sense ‘trotting’), n. of action f. succussāre, f. succuss- (see SUCCUSS). Cf. F. succussation (Cotgr.).] Shaking up, violent shaking, jolting.
1649. Bulwer, Pathomyot., II. ii. 126. That succussation of the Lungs and agitation of the Midriff.
1682. Weekly Mem. Ingen., 231. That motion which does not affect our bodies with succussation … is esteem’d rest.
1706. Reneu, Lett., in C. Wordsworth, Scholæ Acad. (1877), 297. The succussation of your Horse is so great, only to come to london upon him.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, IV. xxii. The succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter.
1774. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (ed. 4), 17. I suffered from some artificial excoriations which I had contracted … by the severe succussations of a conductitious steed.
b. Trotting (of a horse). Cf. 1706, 1774 above.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. vi. 193. Lifting one foot before, and the crosse foot behinde, which is succussation or trotting.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. ii. 48. Whether Pace or Trot, (That is to say, whether Tolutation, As they do term’t, or Succussation).
1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 120. His horses grievous succussation Had so excoriat his foundation.
