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2,087 words match “LATION”

CUPELLATION n.
The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
DEAMBULATION n.
A walking abroad; a promenading. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
DEBELLATION n.
The act of conquering or subduing. [Obs.]
DECOLLATION n. 2 definitions
The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
DELATION n. 2 definitions
Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.
DENTICULATION n. 2 definitions
The state of being set with small notches or teeth. Grew.
DENTILATION n.
Dentition.
DEOPPILATION n.
Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
DEPECULATION n.
A robbing or embezzlement. [Obs.] Depeculation of the public treasure. Hobbes.
DEPILATION n.
Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden.
DEPOPULATION n.
ting, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. Motley.
DESOLATION n. 3 definitions
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.
DIFFLATION n.
A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.
DILATION n. 2 definitions
tate of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.
DISASSIMILATION n.
excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.
DISCONSOLATION n.
Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.
DISSIMILATION n.
The act of making dissimilar. H. Sweet.
DISSIMULATION n.
earance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.
DISTILLATION n. 4 definitions
receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
EFFLATION n.
The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind. A soft efflation of celestial fire. Parnell.
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