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The act of unifying, or the state of being unified. Unification with God was the final aim of the Neoplatonicians. Fleming.

Agreement of name and meaning. [Obs.] Whiston.

Absence or lack of sanctification. Shak.

The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.

The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.

The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. South.

The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. Occasion for the vindication of this passage in my book. Locke.

The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation.

Same as Vitrifaction. Sir T. Browne. Ure.

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival. Bacon.

articular state, business, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

The act or process of applying zinc; the condition of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.

A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.

cif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] Bailey.