† subˈsult, v. Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. subsultāre, frequent. of subsilīre, f. sub- sub- 26 + salīre to leap.]
intr. To hop, jump about. Hence subsulˈtation, hopping, jumping up and down; subˈsulting ppl. a.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., *Subsult, to leap or hop under or about. |
| 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 71 The word σκιρτηδον (which implies a *Subsultation, or Skipping this way and that way)..seems to allude to..Fire⁓crackers and Squibs rather than Cannons or Carbines. 1659 ― Immort. Soul iii. xii. 452 If the meer motion of the material Aire caused the subsultation of the string tuned Unison. a 1688 Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 114 Fortuitous Dancings or Subsultations of the Spirits. |
| 1670 Phil. Trans. V. 1084 In those Earth-quakes..a *subsulting perpendicular motion. 1679 Locke in H. R. F. Bourne Life (1876) I. 449, I found a subsulting something like the strokes of a pulse. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 145 Our rough and subsalient or subsulting Style of our uncouth Phraseological Latin. |