pandiculation

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  1. A stretching of one's self, as when one is newly awaked from sleep, or sleepy or fatigued; a restlessness and inclination to stretch observed at the outset of certain paroxysms of fever, hysteria, etc.: sometimes, somewhat incorrectly, used in the sense of ‘yawning.’ In the next edition of my opium confessions, … by mere dint of pandiculation, I will terrify all readers of mine from ever again questioning any postulate that I shall think fit to make. De Quincey, confessions.

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  • Word For The Day, Thursday, January 22, 2009 - pandiculation dictionaries ad nauseum, internet —  Latest Articles
  • By 1611, from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix - ion. —  Latest Articles
  • My nephew told me, some years ago, that a little pandiculation was good for you, even before you get out of bed. —  Latest Articles
  • From those experiments there is reason to conclude that the fatigued part of the retina throws itself into a contrary mode of action like oscitation or pandiculation, as soon as the stimulus, which has fatigued it, is withdrawn; but that it still remains liable to be excited into action by any other colours except the colour with which it has been fatigued. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • "This morning, right in the middle of my ante-jentacular pandiculation ..." —  girtby.net
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  1. = French pandiculation = Spanish pandiculacion = Portuguese pandiculaςão, from Latin pandiculari, past participle pandiculatus, stretch oneself out: see pandiculated.
 

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