spargefaction
English
Etymology
From Latin spargere (“to strew”) + facere, factum (“to make”).
Noun
spargefaction (usually uncountable, plural spargefactions)
- (obsolete) The act of sprinkling.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?) “A Tale of Tub”. Section 4. “ The operation was performed by spargefaction in a proper time with of the moon”.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 spargefaction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)