excalceation

English

Etymology

From Latin excalceātus + -tion.

Noun

excalceation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The removal of the shoes.
   • 1715, Hugo Grotius, John Morrice, Of the Rights of War and Peace:

     the very Law of Excalceation (the pulling off the Shooe) […] had something of Dishonour in it

References

• “excalceation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.