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Webster 1913 Edition
Pistillation
Pisˊtil-la′tion
,Noun.
[L.
pistillum
a pestle.] The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pistillation
PISTILLA'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pistillation
pistillation
English
Noun
pistillation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The action of pounding with a pestle.
- 1646: [They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle. — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
References
Thomas Sheridan (1780) A General Dictionary of the English Language, Dodsley, page PT717: “PISTILLATION, pis-til-la'-fhun. s. The act of pounding in a mortar.”