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noun
- (obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting.
- 1761: in order, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm, and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter, to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder " Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 270)
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin succussatio, from the past participle stem of Latin succussare, frequentative of succutere, from sub- + quatere "shake".
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