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AbjurationAbjuration Ab`ju*ra"tion, n. [L. abjuratio: cf. F.
abjuration.]
1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon
oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an
oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of
heresy.
Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the
present royal family to the crown of England, and
expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the
Pretender. --Brande & C. AcupuncturationAcupuncturation Ac`u*punc`tu*ra"tion, n.
See Acupuncture. AdjurationAdjuration Ad`ju*ra"tion, n. [L. adjuratio, fr. adjurare: cf.
F. adjuration. See Adjure.]
1. The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under
the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration
shall. --Bp. Hall.
2. The form of oath or appeal.
Persons who . . . made use of prayer and
adjurations. --Addison. AdmensurationAdmensuration Ad*men`su*ra"tion, n. [LL. admensuratio; L. ad +
mensurare to measure. See Mensuration.]
Same as Admeasurement. Assecuration
Assecuration As`se*cu*ra"tion, n. [LL. assecuratio, fr.
assecurare.]
Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]
Auguration
Auguration Au`gu*ra"tion, n. [L. auguratio.]
The practice of augury.
Cicuration
Cicuration Cic`u*ra"tion, n. [Cf. F. cicuration.]
The act of taming. [Obs.] --Ray.
CommensuratingCommensurate Com*men"su*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Commensurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commensurating.] [Pref.
com- + mensurate.]
1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne.
2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller Commensuration
Commensuration Com*men`su*ra"tion, n. [Cf. F. commensuration.]
The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.
All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or
proportion of one thing to another. --South.
Conjuration
Conjuration Con`ju*ra"tion, n. [L. conjuratio, cf. F.
conjuration.]
1. The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in
solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest
entreaty; adjuration.
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; . . .
Under this conjuration speak, my lord. --Shak.
2. The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use
of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts;
incantation; enchantment.
Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event.
--Hallam.
3. A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. [Obs.] ``The
conjuration of Catiline.' --Sir T. Elyot.
Curation
Curation Cu*ra"tion (k?-r?"sh?n), n. [Cf. OF. curacion.]
Cure; healing. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
CurativeCurative Cur"a*tive (k?r"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. curatif. See
Cure, v. t.]
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to
cure. --Arbuthnot. Deauration
Deauration De`au*ra"tion, n.
Act of gilding. [Obs.]
Defiguration
Defiguration De*fig`u*ra"tion, n.
Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
DepuratingDepurate Dep"u*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depurated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Depurating.]
To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence;
to purify; to cleanse.
To depurate the mass of blood. --Boyle. DisfigurationDisfiguration Dis*fig`u*ra"tion, n. [See Disfigure, and cf.
Defiguration.]
The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured;
defacement; deformity; disfigurement. --Gauden. DurationDuration Du*ra"tion, n. [OF. duration. See Dure.]
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the
portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should
be limited. --Macaulay.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D.
Webster. Durative
Durative Dur"a*tive, a.
Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it
as going on. --J. Byrne.
Electro-puncturationElectro-puncturation E*lec`tro-punc`tu*ra"tion,
Electro-puncturing E*lec`tro-punc`tur*ing (?; 135), n. (Med.)
See Electropuncture. Epuration
Epuration Ep`u*ra"tion, n. [L. e out, quite + purare to
purify, purus pure.]
Purification.
Exauguration
Exauguration Ex*au`gu*ra"tion, n. [L. exauguratio
desecration.]
The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]
Figuration
Figuration Fig`u*ra"tion, n. [L. figuratio.]
1. The act of giving figure or determinate form;
determination to a certain form. --Bacon.
2. (Mus.) Mixture of concords and discords.
figurativeFigurate Fig"ur*ate, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See
Figure.]
1. Of a definite form or figure.
Plants are all figurate and determinate, which
inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon.
2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale.
3. (Mus.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by
the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices
in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
Figurate counterpoint or descant (Mus.), that which is
not simple, or in which the parts do not move together
tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more
parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called
also figural, figurative, and figured counterpoint
or descant (although the term figured is more commonly
applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to
indicate the other notes of the harmony).
Figurate numbers (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers,
formed from any arithmetical progression in which the
first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number,
by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two,
first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of
a new series, from which another may be formed in the same
manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series
being such that points representing them are capable of
symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures,
as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.
Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are
composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line
being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3,
4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1,
4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . Fissuration
Fissuration Fis`su*ra"tion, n. (Anat.)
The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Fulgurating
Fulgurating Ful"gu*ra`ting, a. (Med.)
Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating
pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
FulgurationFulguration Ful"gu*ra`tion, n. [L. fulguratio: cf. F.
fulguration.]
1. The act of lightening. [R.] --Donne.
2. (Assaying) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of
gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or
copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
A phenomenon called, by the old chemists,
fulguration. --Ure. Furfuration
Furfuration Fur"fu*ra"tion, n. [L. furfur bran, scurf.]
Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.
Impuration
Impuration Im`pu*ra"tion, n.
Defilement; obscuration. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
InauguratingInaugurate In*au"gu*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inaugurated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Inaugurating.]
1. To introduce or induct into an office with suitable
ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or
authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to
inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king. --Milton.
2. To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony;
hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate;
-- used especially of something of dignity or worth or
public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new
methods, etc.
As if kings did closes remarkable days to inaugurate
their favors. --Sir H.
Wotton.
3. To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use
of; to dedicate, as a statue. [Colloq.]
4. To begin with good omens. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
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