Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of kicking. See recalcitration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act of kicking.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of kicking.

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Examples

  • Dislocation backward, also, as in the case of the elbow, may be reduced by moderate extension, and to either side, either by flexion or calcitration, but also by moderate extension.

    On The Articulations 2007

  • There were signs of calcitration in the churchwarden, when he perceived whither I was leading him.

    Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

  • The modes of reduction are these: by flexion at the knee, or by sudden calcitration, or having rolled a swathe into a ball, and fixed it in the ham, the patient’s body is to be suddenly dropped on its bended knees.

    On The Articulations 2007

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