exestuation
English
Etymology
Latin exaestuatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɡˌzɛstjuˈeɪʃən/, /ɛɡˌzɛst͡ʃuˈeɪʃən/
Noun
exestuation (usually uncountable, plural exestuations)
- (obsolete) A boiling up; effervescence.
- 1695, Lucretius, Thomas Creech (translator), Of the Nature of Things
- The exestuation of the Waters of the Sea
- 1695, Lucretius, Thomas Creech (translator), Of the Nature of Things
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exestuation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)