Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of burning, scorching, or heating to dryness; the state or being thus heated or dried. Harvey.
- noun In medicine, cauterization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
- noun (Surg.) Cauterization.
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- noun obsolete The act of
burning , orheating todryness ; the state of being thus heated or dried. - noun obsolete, surgery
cauterization
Etymologies
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Examples
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Laurentius condemns his tenet, because adustion of humours makes men mad, as lime burns when water is cast on it.
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Vega reports of his knowledge, that he hath known melancholy caused from putrefied blood in those seed-veins and womb; [2429] Arculanus, from that menstruous blood turned into melancholy, and seed too long detained (as I have already declared) by putrefaction or adustion.
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And it is not alone in her profession that this gifted adustion has amazed and benefited an incinerated public: to her the world is indebted for the many fire-escapes, life-preservers, salamander safes, improved pompier ladders, play-house exits, standpipes, and Babcock extinguishers of modern times.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
qms commented on the word adustion
When raising a glass to your host
The jokes should be tepid at most.
Some wry, dry adustion
Bests roaring combustion.
The gesture's a toast, not a roast.
April 19, 2015