Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of flying away; flight; escape; exhalation; evaporation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of flying; flight; evaporation.
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- noun obsolete
flight ; act offlying - noun obsolete
evaporation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Putridity, from the avolation of its products, promotes levity, and that in proportion as its increase surpasses that of the general acid; and it is not until the action of the acetous becomes languid, that the putrid process gains the ascendency, when it is then difficult to overcome.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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During which, so great is the avolation of fixed air, (as we have seen,) that much of the ethereal part of the new formed, or, rather, the scarcely-formed spirit, is carried off with it in a gaseous state.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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_Cylindrical_ part, you may perceive it to untwist it self; and presently again, upon the _avolation_ of the spirit, by the great heat, it will re-twist it self, and thus will it move forward and backwards as oft as you repeat the touching it with the spirit of Wine; so may, perhaps, the shrinking and relaxing of the muscles be by the influx and evaporation of some kind of liquor or juice.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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_avolation_ of the juice through the skin; for by the Wax, all those other pores of the stem are very firmly and closely stop'd up.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
qms commented on the word avolation
When bound for the last destination
I hope to create no sensation,
Ask no trumpet blast
To hear at the last
But subtle and sweet avolation.
August 16, 2017