trutination

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noun

The act of weighing.

OriginLatin trutinari →
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Meanings

nountrutination (countable and uncountable, plural trutinations)

plural trutinations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of weighing.

    And we conceive men may mistake, if they distinguish not the sense of levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale, or decision of trutination

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

Origin

  1. Latintrutinari“to weigh”
  2. Englishtrutination

From Latin trutinari (“to weigh”), from trutina (“a balance”). See trone (“a steelyard”).

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