palification

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noun

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

OriginLatin palus →
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Meanings

nounpalification (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

    Among which notes I haue sayd nothing of Palification, or Pyling of the Groundplot

    1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC
    1 more example

    After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification[…]

    1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history

Origin

  1. Latinpalus“a stake”
  2. Englishpalification

From Latin palus (“a stake”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French palification. See -fy.

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pontificalia
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APA

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MLA

“palification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palification. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “palification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palification.

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