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CREPITATION n. 3 definitions
The act of crepitating or crackling.
CRISTATE a.
Crested.
CRUENTATE a.
Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.
CRUSTATED a.
Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
CRUSTATION n.
An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.
CUNCTATION n.
Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.
CUNCTATIVE a.
Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
CUNCTATOR n.
One who delays or lingers. [R.]
CURSITATING a.
Moving about slightly. [R.] H. Bushnell.
CURTATE a.
ndicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.
CURTATION n.
The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
CURVICOSTATE a.
Having bent ribs.
CURVIDENTATE a.
Having curved teeth.
DEBILITATE v.
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
DEBILITATION n.
The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
DECANTATE v.
To decant. [Obs.]
DECANTATION n.
The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
DECAPITATE v. 2 definitions
To cut off the head of; to behead.
DECAPITATION n.
The act of beheading; beheading.
DECEMDENTATE a.
Having ten points or teeth.
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