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The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

A sitting beside or near.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

mblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.