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Webster 1913 Edition


Exilition

Exˊi-li′tion

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Noun.
[L.
exsilire
to spring from;
ex
out +
salire
to spring, leap.]
A sudden springing or leaping out.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exilition

EXILI'TION

,
Noun.
[L. exilio, for exsalio, to leap out.]
A sudden springing or leaping out. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


exilition

exilition

English

Noun

exilition (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of suddenly jumping up or out.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      From Salt-petre proceedeth the force and the report; for Sulphur and Small-coal mixed will not take fire with noise, or exilition [...].