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Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.

bles, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

y substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

See Exauthoration.

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries; (Med.)

The state of being without perforation.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of imploring; earnest supplication. Bp. Hall.

ng with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

The act of bedewing; the state of being moistened with de [Obs.] Chambers.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.