malacissation

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin malacissare (to make soft), from Ancient Greek.

Noun

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malacissation (countable and uncountable, plural malacissations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The act of making soft or supple.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      All sudden renovation of the body is wrought either by the spirit, or by malacissations.