adustion

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin adustiō.

Noun

adustion (countable and uncountable, plural adustions)

1. (obsolete) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
   • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 21:23–25, page 222:

     But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.

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2. (surgery, obsolete) Cauterization.

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Translations

the act of burning or heating to dryness

• Portuguese: adustão f
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “adustion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• sudation

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adustion f (plural adustions)

1. (medicine) cauterization

Further reading

• “adustion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Noun

adustion oblique singular, f (oblique plural adustions, nominative singular adustion, nominative plural adustions)

1. heat; high temperature