tripudiary
English
Etymology
Latin tripudium (“a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance”).
Adjective
tripudiary (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of or relating to dancing.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 12,
- On this foundation were built the conclusions of Southsayers in their Auguriall, and Tripudiary divinations […]
- 1895, Irving C. Rosen, “The Conservative Value of the Play-Impulse,” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 133, Number 16, 17 October, 1895, p. 387,
- Biblical and literary references to tripudiary acts are almost too common to require mention.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 12,
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 tripudiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)