v. Obs. rare–0. [ad. L. subsultāre, frequent. of subsilīre, f. sub- SUB- 25 + salīre to leap.] intr. To hop, jump about. Hence Subsultation, hopping, jumping up and down; Subsulting ppl. a.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., *Subsult, to leap or hop under or about.

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1650.  H. More, Observ., in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 7. The word Σκιρτηδὸν (which implies a *Subsultation, or Skipping this way and that way) … seems to allude to … Firecrackers and Squibs rather than Cannons or Carbines. Ibid. (1659), Immort. Soul, III. xii. 452. If the meer motion of the material Aire caused the subsultation of the string tuned Unison.

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a. 1688.  Cudworth, Immut. Mor. (1731), 114. Fortuitous Dancings or Subsultations of the Spirits.

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1670.  Phil. Trans., V. 1084. In those Earth-quakes … a *subsulting perpendicular motion.

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1679.  Locke, in H. R. F. Bourne, Life (1876), I. 449. I found a subsulting something like the strokes of a pulse.

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1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 145. Our rough and subsalient or subsulting Style of our uncouth Phraseological Latin.

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