exsuction

English

Etymology

From Latin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum (“to suck out”), from ex (“out”) + sugō (“to suck”). Equivalent to ex- +‎ suction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsʌkʃən/

Noun

exsuction (plural exsuctions)

1. (archaic) The act of sucking out.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

     I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer in our receiver, in case of exsuction of the air.

References

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