Obs. rare. Also toll-. [f. stem of L. tolūtim adv. ‘at a trot’ + -ATION; cf. tolutārius adj. trotting.] prop. Trotting; but used by Sir T. Browne, Butler, and others, for ‘ambling’; in later use only as a humorous pedantry. So † Tolutate (toll-) v. (humorous), intr. to trot (or amble); † Tolutiloquence (rare–0) [L. tolūtiloquentia], talking ‘at a trot,’ voluble speech.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. vi. 193. Whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is Tollutation or ambling; or per diametrum,… which is Succussation or trotting.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tolutation..., an ambling pace, a going easie … Tolutiloquence..., a smooth or nimble kinde of speaking.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. II. 47. They rode, but Authors having not Determined whether Pace or Trot (That is to say, whether Tollutation, As they do term ’t, or Succussation) We leave it, and go on.
1755. Johnson, Tolutation, the act of pacing or ambling.
1796. R. L. Edgeworth, in Life (1821), II. 153. You compose in your chaise, and I on horseback, which is the reason why your lines roll so smoothly, and mine partake so much of Tolutation.
1803. Fessenden, Terrible Tractoration, 39. We’ll jog along in plain narration; And tollutate o’er turnpike path.
