Definition of "pulsatory" []

• Having rhythmical vibration or movement. (adjective)

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• "The microphonic currents are intermittent or pulsatory, and always flow in the same direction."
• "On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction -- vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction."
• "Eating, Walking, -- all our most elementary movements are pulsatory."