impinguation
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
impinguation (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) The act of fattening, or the state of being fat or fattened.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- the flower of Age of what Hairs; of Impinguation, and the like
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Browne to this entry?)
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- “impinguation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.