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Webster 1913 Edition
Pulsation
Pul-sa′tion
,Noun.
[L.
pulsatio
a beating or striking: cf. F. pulsation
.] 1.
(Physiol.)
A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
2.
A single beat or throb of a series.
3.
A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
4.
(Law)
Any touching of another’s body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
By the Cornelian law,
pulsation
as well as verberation is prohibited. Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pulsation
PULSA'TION
,Noun.
1.
In law, any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery. By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
Definition 2024
pulsation
pulsation
English
Noun
pulsation (countable and uncountable, plural pulsations)
- The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse. [from 15th c.]
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’:
- Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’:
- Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc. [from 17th c.]
- (now rare) Physical striking; a blow. [from 17th c.]
- Blackstone
- By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
- Blackstone
- A single beat, throb or vibration. [from 19th c.]