exsiccation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin exsiccatio, exsiccationis, from Latin exsicco: compare French exsiccation.
Noun
[edit]exsiccation (countable and uncountable, plural exsiccations)
- (archaic) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971:
- That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
- This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971:
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[edit]References
[edit]- “exsiccation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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