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A sowing or planting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ccusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

A turning from with dislike; aversion. [Obs.or Archaic] Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.

The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

The act of catechising.

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the…

One who believes in the law of universal causation.

A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the comm…

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

A reveling; a rioting. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke.

A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

A conversationist.