radication

plural radications

1. uncountableusuallyThe process of taking root, or state of being rooted.

   the radication of habits

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   So that an essential increase of charity means nothing else but that it is yet more in its subject, which implies a greater radication in its subject.

   1917, Fathers of the English Dominican Province (translation), Thomas Aquinas (original), Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 24

   Synonyms: settlement

2. uncountableusuallybiologyThe disposition of the roots of a plant.

   radication of plants

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   They had a due diffuſion of their roots on all or both ſides, vvhereby they maintained ſome proportion to their height, in Trees of large radication.

   1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 161–162

   I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from

   1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98

3. rareuncountableusuallyarithmeticThe process of extracting a number's root.