spiflication
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See spiflicate.
Noun
[edit]spiflication (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) The act of spiflicating, or the state of being spiflicated; annihilation.
- 1855, Richard Francis Burton, Pilgrimmage to El-Medinah and Mecca:
- Whose blood he vowed to drink — the Oriental form of threatening spiflication
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 11, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel:
- ... you had better not mention — to quote Johnson — of Benson's spiflication
References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “spiflication”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Eric Partridge (1984) Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […], 8th edition, New York: Macmillan