concussation
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]concussation (plural concussations)
- (obsolete) A violent shock or agitation.
- 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peacemaker:
- Envy in the bosom is like a subterraneous fire shut up in the bowels of the earth , which , after some astonishing concussation, breaks furiously out with noise and horror
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “concussation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)