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Webster 1913 Edition


Suffumigation

Suf-fuˊmi-ga′tion

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Noun.
[L.
suffumigatio
: cf. F.
suffumigation
.]
The operation of suffumigating.

Webster 1828 Edition


Suffumigation

SUFFUMIGA'TION

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Noun.
Fumigation; the operation of smoking any thing, or rather of applying fumes to the internal parts of the body.
1.
A term applied to all medicines that are received into the body in the form of fumes.

Definition 2024


suffumigation

suffumigation

English

Noun

suffumigation (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.

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