bullition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin bullire, bullitum (“to boil”). See boil (verb) and ebullition.
Noun[edit]
bullition (plural bullitions)
- (obsolete) The action of boiling.
- a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Articles of Questions touching Mi∣nerals:
- There is to be observed in those dissolutions which will not easily incorporate, what the effects are : as the bullition ; the precipitation to the bottom; the ejaculation towards the top […]
References[edit]
“bullition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.