Meanings
noundissilition (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe act of bursting, or breaking apart.
the Dissilition of that Air was so great , that the small Viol seem'd to be full of Milk
1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC
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