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A diminution. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. "Slender perforations." Sir T. Browne.

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke.

The act of pledging or pawning.

Same as Prefloration. Gray.

Æstivation.

A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.

station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reëstablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden.

A Restorationist.

The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.

One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Coles.

A falling of dew. [R.]

Manuring with dung. [Obs.] Bacon.

See Perkinism.

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. [R.]

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…