Meanings
- rareuncountableThe act of apricating, or basking in the sun.
Aprication, a beaking in the sunne."
1626, H. C. Gent, The English Dictionarie, London: Isaac Iaggard2 more examples
Very few persons seem to have a due sense of the luxury and benefit of aprication, or immersion in the sunshine bath, which every fair day will furnish gratuitously to all applicants.
1883, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Pages from an old volume of life, Boston: Houghton Mifflin CompanyWe would tease him about the countless hours he would spend soaking in suntan lotion as he lay on the same exact spot along the pool. "How long were you in heaven this morning?" my mother would ask. "Two straight hours. But I plan to return early this afternoon for a much longer aprication."
2007, André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2008, →ISBN, page 26
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