These thoughts are the product of centuries of Anglican pew-pandiculation; eat your heart out Pascal. From Wordnik.com. [Corn Flake Anglicans. Plumbing the depths of banality. « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
"This morning, right in the middle of my ante-jentacular pandiculation ...". From Wordnik.com. [girtby.net] Reference
By 1611, from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix - ion. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
My nephew told me, some years ago, that a little pandiculation was good for you, even before you get out of bed. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The pleasure we receive from a melodious succession of notes referable to the gamut is derived from another source, viz. to the pandiculation or counteraction of antagonist fibres. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The alternate exertions of the retina in the preceding section resembled the oscitation or pandiculation of the muscles, as they were performed in directions contrary to each other, and were the consequence of fatigue rather than of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
When any of our larger muscles have been in long or in violent action, and their antagonists have been at the same time extended, as soon as the action of the former ceases, the limb is stretched the contrary way for our ease, and a pandiculation or yawning takes place. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
As the nerves of the senses have each their appropriated objects, which stimulate them into activity; so the muscular fibres, which are the terminations of other sets of nerves, have their peculiar objects, which excite them into action; the longitudinal muscles are stimulated into contraction by extension, whence the stretching or pandiculation after a long continued posture, during which they have been kept in a state of extension; and the hollow muscles are excited into action by distention, as those of the rectum and bladder are induced to protrude their contents from their sense of the distention rather than of the acrimony of those contents. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
No; believe all that I ask of you — viz., that I could resist no longer; believe it liberally and as an act of grace, or else in mere prudence; for if not, then in the next edition of my Opium Confessions, revised and enlarged, I will make you believe and tremble; and a force d’ennuyer, by mere dint of pandiculation I will terrify all readers of mine from ever again questioning any postulate that I shall think fit to make. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
A circular spot of pale green will be seen on the white paper, or in the closed eye; which is called the ocular spectrum of the red silk, and is formed as Dr. Darwin shows by the pandiculation or stretching of the fine fibrils, which constitute the extremities of the optic nerve, in a direction contrary to that, in which they have been excited by previously looking at a luminous object, till they become fatigued; like the yawning or stretching of the larger muscles after acting long in one direction. From Wordnik.com. [Note XIII] Reference
"pandiculation". From Wordnik.com. [Funny Cool Stuff] Reference
When, through fatigue, a muscle can act no longer; the antagonist muscles, either by their inanimate elasticity, or by their animal action, draw the limb into a contrary direction: in the solid muscles, as those of locomotion, their actions are associated in tribes, which have been accustomed to synchronous action only; hence when they are fatigued, only a single contrary effort takes place; which is either tremulous, when the fatigued muscles are again immediately brought into action; or it is a pandiculation, or stretching, where they are not immediately again brought into action. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Thus if you make a dot with ink in the centre of a circle of red silk the size of a letter-wafer, and place it on a sheet of white paper, and look on it for a minute without moving your eyes; and then gently turn them on the white paper in its vicinity, or gently close them, and hold one hand an inch or two before them, to prevent too much light from passing through the eyelids, a circular spot of pale green will be seen on the white paper, or in the closed eye; which is called the ocular spectrum of the red silk, and is formed as Dr. Darwin shows by the pandiculation or stretching of the fine fibrils, which constitute the extremities of the optic nerve, in a direction contrary to that, in which they have been excited by previously looking at a luminous object, till they become fatigued; like the yawning or stretching of the larger muscles after acting long in one direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
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