oppilation

English

Etymology

Latin oppilatio: compare French opilation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒpɪˈleɪʃən/

Noun

oppilation (plural oppilations)

1. The act of crowding or filling together; a stopping by redundant matter; an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon X. The Flesh and the Spirit. Part I.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 140:

     For he that refuseth the commandment [to be temperate], […] brings to himself a world of diseases and a healthless constitution; smart and sickly nights; a loathing stomach and a staring eye; a giddy brain and a swelled belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oppilation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)