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DISFIGURATION n.
The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.
DISINCORPORATION n.
Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.
DISINTEGRATION n.
The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically
DISSEVERATION n.
The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]
DIVERBERATION n.
A sounding through.
DULCORATION n.
The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.
DURATION n.
nce in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
EDULCORATION n. 2 definitions
The act of sweetening or edulcorating.
ELABORATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
ELECTRO-PUNCTURATION; ELECTRO-PUNCTURING n.
See Electropuncture.
ELUCUBRATION n.
See Lucubration. [Obs.] Evelyn.
EMACERATION n.
Emaciation. [Obs.]
EMIGRATION n. 2 definitions
A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
EMIGRATIONAL a.
Relating to emigration.
EMIGRATIONIST n.
An advocate or promoter of emigration.
EMPLASTRATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.
ENARRATION n.
A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.
ENUMERATION n. 3 definitions
noticed. Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. Paley.
EPURATION n.
Purification.
EQUILIBRATION n. 2 definitions
eing balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.
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