residuation

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Etymology 1[edit]

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residuation

  1. The process of residuating, or computing a residual.

Etymology 2[edit]

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residuation

  1. An editorial misreading for recidivation.
    • 1633, Sir Thomas Stafford [tr., ed.], “A Letter from the Lord President to the Spanish Cannoniers in Dunboy” in Pacata Hibernia; or, A History of the Wars in Ireland, during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, volume II (Dublin: Reprinted by the Hibernia-Press Company, № 1, Temple-Lane; 1810), book III, chapter III, page 532
      The Lord President about the beginning of February dispatched Sir Charles Wilmot with a Regiment of one thousand and seven hundred Foote in list, but by pole very weake, and a troope of Horse, into his former government of Kerry, not doubting but hee which had the skill to cure the former rebellious diseases of that Countrey, could also recure the residuation thereof.

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