Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To dance.
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I may stroke my natiform chin sceptically at Shea's cachinnations, but if such things truly make him tripudiate
reesetee commented on the word tripudiate
1. To dance, skip, or leap for joy, or with excitement; to exult. 2. To trample, stamp, or jump (on or upon) in contempt or triumph.
OED says this word is "Now rare and affected." Silly OED.
October 13, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word tripudiate
The word is from Latin tripudium, stamping on the ground, which is perhaps from words meaning "three" and "foot," indicating a measured dance of some sort, particularly during a religious ritual.
In Love’s Meinie by John Ruskin: “And observe also, that of the three types of lout, whose combined chorus and tripudiation leads the present British Constitution its devil’s dance, this last and smoothest type is also the dullest.�?
January 17, 2009
jaime_d commented on the word tripudiate
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011