tripudiary

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adjective

Of or relating to dancing.

OriginLatin tripudium →
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Meanings

adjectivetripudiary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteOf or relating to dancing.

    Biblical and literary references to tripudiary acts are almost too common to require mention.

    1895 October 17, Irving C. Rosen, “The Conservative Value of the Play-Impulse”, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 133, number 16, page 387
    1 more example

    On this foundation were built the conclusions of Southsayers in their Auguriall, and Tripudiary divinations […]

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 12

Origin

  1. Latintripudium“a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance”
  2. Englishtripudiary

Latin tripudium (“a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance”).

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