assation

assation

English

Etymology

From French assation, from Latin assare (“to roast”).

Noun

assation (plural assations)

1. (obsolete) Roasting, baking.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:

     Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation.