spiflication

English

Etymology

See spiflicate.

Noun

spiflication (uncountable)

1. (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

• 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