Meanings
nountripudiation (countable and uncountable, plural tripudiations)
plural tripudiations
- countableformalobsoleteuncountableThe act of dancing.
dances to the musicall aires of the cogitations, which is that tripudiation of the Nymphs
1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC1 more example
Till champagne and tripudiation do their work; and all lie silent, horizontal; passively slumbering, with meed-of-battle dreams!
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
Origin
- Latintripudiatio
- Englishtripudiation
Latin tripudiatio.
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