Meanings
nounpinguefaction (uncountable)
- uncountableA making of, or turning into, fat.
The spontaneous tendency to pinguefaction would also conduce to quietude of disposition in the animal, and to the more economical and easy satisfaction of the appetite.
1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, volume 6, page 161
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