emication

Meanings

nounemication (usually uncountable, plural emications)

archaicuncountableusuallyA spark, flickering or scintillation.
Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with noise and emication, as also a crasse and fumide exhalation, which are caused from this combat of the sulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous spirits of Aqua fortis
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, Chapter V

From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).

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