deoppilation

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noun

The removal of an obstruction.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noundeoppilation (countable and uncountable, plural deoppilations)

plural deoppilations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe removal of an obstruction.

    yet are the dissoluble parts extracted, whereby it becomes effectual in deoppilations, and therefore for speedier operation we make extinctions, infusions, and the like

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

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