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Fractional. [Obs.]

To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

The act of making cold. [Obs.]

agment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness. Berkeley.

act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Intermediate action.

ying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

ess, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.

See Stupefaction. [Obs.] Howell.

The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.

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An agreement; a compact; a bargain. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. Bp. Sanderson.

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Jer. Taylor.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.