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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

exantlation

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

[Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

The act of drawing out; exhaustion. [Not used.]

exantlation ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) The action of drawing something out, as though from a well.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
  Truth, which wise men say doth lye in a Well, is not recoverable, but by exantlation.
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, Penguin 2004, p. 13:
  I do not doubt to lay open, by untwisting or unwinding, and either to draw up by exantlation, or display by incision.