suffumigation

suffumigation

English

Noun

suffumigation (countable and uncountable, plural suffumigations)

1. The burning of substances to produce fumes as part of some magical rituals.
   • 1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, page 208:

     Now I will make dis avail me at de change of every quarter-moon dat I shall find by the same proportions of expenses I lay out in de suffumigations, as nine, to de product of nine multiplied unto itself.

Synonyms

• smudging (neopaganism)