v. Now rare and affected. [f. L. tripudiāt-, ppl. stem of tripudiāre (collat. form tripodāre), f. tripudium a beating the ground with the feet, a leaping or dancing, a religious dance (prob. f. tri- three + pod- (cf. Gr. ποδ, foot). Cf. OF. tripudier (14th c. in Godef.).]
1. intr. To dance, skip, or leap for joy, or with excitement; to exult.
1623. Cockeram, Tripudiate, to daunce.
a. 1641. Bp. Montagu, Acts & Mon., iii. (1642), 205. Such … could not but jubilate, tripudiate, feele extraordinary motions and affections of joy.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 589. The Earth did rejoice and tripudiate when the Saviour came forth alive out of the belly of the Grave.
1891. Sat. Rev., 8 Aug., 158/1. He … will … tripudiate upon the platform because his party have made a long legislative score.
2. To trample, stamp, or jump (on or upon) in contempt or triumph.
1888. Sat. Rev., 5 May, 524/1. On poor Colonel Slade … he tripudiates with all the chivalry of the ‘varray perfit gentil knight’ of controversy that he is. Ibid. (1891), 7 Nov., 520/1. He tripudiates a little … on the unfortunate Mediæval and Modern Languages Tripos.
1895. Farrar, Gathering Clouds, I. 131. The people tore down the image, tripudiated on its shattered fragments.
So Tripudiant a. [ad. L. tripudiānt-em, pres. pple. of tripudiāre: see above], dancing; fig. exultant, triumphant; Tripudiation [ad. late L. tripudiātiōn-em, n. of action f. tripudiāre], the action of dancing or leaping, esp. in token of joy or excitement; exultation; Tripudist, one given to ‘tripudiating.’
a. 1626. W. Sclater, Exp. 4th ch. Rom. (1650), Ep. Ded. A kinde of *tripudiant joy, and exultation of spirit.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., III. xxxvi. (1713), 283. How transported are my Spirits, how triumphant and tripudiant!
1870. Sat. Rev., 26 Feb., 275/1. Fast young peeresses and tripudiant matrons.
1623. Cockeram, II. Dancing, *Tripudiation.
1629. H. Burton, Truth’s Triumph, 295. After a goodly flourish and triumphall tripudiation, as if the field were already won.
1709. J. Johnson, Clergym. Vade M., II. 110. The word implies tripudiation, or immodest dancing.
1885. Sat. Rev., 12 Dec., 769/2. The rest of his speech was mere tripudiation.
1833. Douce, Dance of Death, i. 6. These riotous and irreverent *tripudists and caperers appear to have possessed themselves of the churchyards to exhibit their dancing fooleries.
