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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. OF.

nugation

The act or practice of trifling.

[R.]

Bacon.

Noun.

[L. to trifle.] The act or practice of trifling. [Little used.]

nugation ‎(plural nugations)

(rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
- 1826, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, p13
  As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation: for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction ...