crispation

English

Noun

crispation (plural crispations)

1. (archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
2. (archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle.
   • Francis Bacon

     Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• antipsoric, apicortins, ascription

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French

Etymology

From crisper +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁis.pa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

crispation f (plural crispations)

1. twitch
2. tension

Further reading

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