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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Pulsated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Pulsating

[L.

pulsatus

, p. p. of

pulsare

to beat, strike, v. intens. fr.

pellere

to beat, strike, drive. See

a beating, and cf.

Verb.

]

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to

pulsate

long after it is taken from the body.

E. Darwin.

Verb.

[L. pulsatus,pulso, to beat, from the root of pello, to drive.] To beat or throb.

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body.