Meanings
nounpistillation (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe action of pounding with a pestle.
[They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch. 5
Origin
From Latin pistillum + English -ation.
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