tolutation

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noun

A pacing or ambling.

OriginLatin tolutim →
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Meanings

nountolutation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleterareuncountableA pacing or ambling.

    whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is tolutation or ambling, or per diametrum, lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latintolutim“on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet”
  2. Englishtolutation

From Latin tolutim (“on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet”), akin to tollere (“to lift up”). Compare Icelandic tölt.

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APA

tolutation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolutation

MLA

“tolutation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolutation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tolutation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolutation.

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