crispation

plural crispations

1. archaicThe act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
2. archaicA slight twitch of a muscle.

   crispation of the muscles

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   crispation of the stomach

   Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.

   1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe

   THE NYMPH: (Loftily.) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light. (She arches her body in lascivious crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth.).

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses