Meanings
- obsoleteThe act of eventilating; discussion.
[It is an opinion of some moderns] that it [vital flame] requires constant eventilation, through the trachea and pores of the body for the discharge of a fuliginous and excrementitious vapour.
1744, George Berkeley, Siris
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