piscation

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noun

fishing; fishery

OriginLatin piscatio →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounpiscation (usually uncountable, plural piscations)

plural piscations

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyfishing; fishery

    There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
fishing

Origin

  1. Latinpiscatio
  2. Englishpiscation

From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”).

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APA

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“piscation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piscation. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “piscation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piscation.

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