pestilation

English

Etymology

From Latin pestillum. See pestle.

Noun

pestilation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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