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Pulsation   Listen
noun
Pulsation  n.  
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."






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"Pulsation" Quotes from Famous Books



... was at once feebler and more strong. Feebler, as regarded her late resolution; stronger as regarded the force of her affections, the sweet humanities, not altogether subdued within her heart. The slight pulsation of that infant in her womb had been more effectual than the voice of reason, or conscience, or feminine dread. The maternal feeling is, perhaps, the most imperious of all those which gather in ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... health, and for throwing off impediments during disease. In conducting his investigations, the enquirer begins by taking a general view of the whole subject, and then separating and defining its leading parts. Pulsation, respiration, digestion, and the various secretions and excretions of the body, are defined, and their general connection with each other correctly ascertained. These form his starting points; and then, taking ...
— A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education • James Gall

... knelt by the dead child, and after feeling in vain for any pulsation, straightened up ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... THESE REVEREND HYPOCRITES—these scribes and pharisees, are treading on a terrible volcano. They will find their treasonable schemes and infernal plotting against the liberties of man tried and condemned by the pure light of God's own truth and love, which shines and throbs in every pulsation of humanity's heart. If Protestantism prove recreant to her high trust, she will have to pass the ordeal of enlightened public opinion and be consigned to ...
— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow

... past a strange, far-away musical note, like the murmur of running water, had struck my ear, and yet all about everything looked dead. Of animate or even inanimate pulsation there was no sign. One unbroken sheet of snow stretched as far as I could see, in which stood the great trees like mummies. Still the sound continued, seeming to come from under my feet. I stopped, ...
— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell


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