v. rare–0. [f. L. tībīcināt-, ppl. stem of tībīcīn-āre to play on the flute: see prec. and -ATE3.] intr. To play on the tibia or flute. So Tibicination (rare–0); Tibicinist (rare–1) = prec.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tibicinate (tibicino), to sing or pipe. [Hence in later Dicts.]
1658. Phillips, Tibicination, a playing on a Pipe.
1846. Rimbault, in North’s Mem. Music 37, note. An engraving from a manuscript … in which a tibicinist is delineated … blowing on the tibia pares, or two equal flutes.
