caprizant means having irregular, leaping beats.
Why “caprizant” is a great word
Caprizant describes a pulse with an irregular, leaping, or bounding beat. From the Latin *caprizāns*, present participle of *caprizāre* ("to leap like a goat"), from *caper* ("goat"), it was first attested in English in 1724. Unlike "arrhythmic" (which denotes a loss of rhythm) or "tachycardic" (which specifies excessive speed), caprizant captures the quality of the aberration—a stubborn, capricious vitality. It is the thrum of a moth against a lampshade, the skitter of a startled kid on loose scree, the syncopated knock of a branch in a gale against a windowpane—life insisting, not in a steady march, but in a series of erratic, animal bounds.
adj
- Having irregular, leaping beats.e.g.“The caprizant Pulse is to be perceived in the upper or lower Part, but hardly at all in the Middle, from an Aneurism, Tumor, &c.”
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