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The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

The act of taming. [Obs.] Ray.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

An orbicular motion. [Obs.] bailey.

The act of going round; circumlocution. [R.]

moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

Act of inclosing on all sides. [R.]

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

See Circumflexion.

The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.