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  • noun Plural form of oppilation.

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Examples

  • He attributed his good health during his stay in the Indies to this habit: "and with this custom I lived twelve years in those parts healthy, without any obstructions or oppilations, not knowing what either ague or fever was."

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Parnassus, '' has given him '(Jonson) 'a purge that made him bewray his credit' Now Ben, clearly enough, calls this answer of the great adversary -- a 'finely wrapt-up antimony,' whereby minds 'stopped with earthy oppilations,' are purged into another world.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • Certes I find among the writers that the milk of a goat is next in estimation to that of the woman, for that it helpeth the stomach, removeth oppilations and stoppings of the liver, and looseth the belly.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • The Fountain of the Capon, sedative and scorbutic, was indicated for rheumatisms of every kind, not excluding sprained limbs, hydrophobia, lycanthropy, black choler, oppilations and procrastinating catapepsia.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • Certes I find among the writers that the milk of a goat is next in estimation to that of the woman, for that it helpeth the stomach, removeth oppilations and stoppings of the liver, and looseth the belly.

    Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909

  • It corroborates de stomach py driving off de sour humors of de pylorus, and cleansing de diaphram from de oppilations which fill up and torpefy de pipes of de nerves.

    Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

  • The couetous man makes a thousand voiages by sea and by lande: runnes a thousand fortunes: escapes a thousand shipwrackes in perpetuall feare and trauell: and many times he either looseth his time, or gaineth nothing but sicknesses, goutes, and oppilations for the time to come.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

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