carbunculation

English

Etymology

Latin carbunculatio.

Noun

carbunculation (usually uncountable, plural carbunculations)

1. (rare) The blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.
   • 1855, Pliny (the Elder.), translated by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History of Pliny - Volume 3, page 520:

     The disease known as sideration entirely depends upon the heavens; and hence we may class under this head, the ill effects produced by hail-storms, carbunculation, and the damage caused by hoar-frosts.

   • 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie, page 172:

     Howsumdiver, I now mane to enjoy myself in the manetime, and do like the poor fellah when locked up head and shoulders in the carbunculation of dispair, drown my sorrows in a glass.

   • 1915 September 27, The Magpie, “The Apcavserie”, in The Amateur Photographer, volume 62, page 264:

     Its hopes may be nipped in the bud by distortion, or halation, or abrasion, or reticulation, or electrification, or carbunculation, until it must be as unlikely that any negative should emerge perfect from the dark-room chrysalis as that a bomb should rop from a Zeppelin on to this page and dot its "i's" and cross its "t's."

   • 1928, Missouri State Medical Association, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association - Volume 25, page 18:

     […] papulation, pustulation, carbunculation, vesiculation and bullous formation.

   • 2016, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Treasury of David:

     Unseasonable frosts in the spring scorch the tender fruits, which bad effect of frost is usually expressed by carbunculation or blasting. -Joseph Caryl.

   • 2020, Peter Fifield, Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books, page 140:

     The opening lines' dull roots have, as it were, been protected from carbunculation by the insulating snow, while the second stanza's questions land on carbunculine soil: 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?'