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Webster 1913 Edition
Pandiculation
Pan-dicˊu-la′tion
,Noun.
[L.
pandiculari
to stretch one’s self, fr. pandere
to spread out.] A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pandiculation
PANDICULA'TION
,Noun.
A yawning; a stretching; the tension of the solids that accompanies yawning, or that restlessness and stretching that accompanies the cold fit of an intermittent.
Definition 2024
pandiculation
pandiculation
English
Joseph Ducreux pandiculating; self-portrait ca 1783
Noun
pandiculation (plural pandiculations)
- A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy or on waking, often accompanied by yawning.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
- If I were a visitor from another planet - but then, am I not a visitor from another planet? - I think that of all the earthlings' quirks it is the act of pandiculation that would surprise and fascinate me most, that slow stretch and then the soundless ape-howl, in which they indulge themselves with such languorous relish.
- 1993, John Banville, Ghosts
Translations
stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy