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digitation|dɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
[f. digitate v. or a.: see -ation. Cf. F. digitation Cotgr.]
†1. A touching, or pointing, with the finger. Obs.
1658Phillips Digitation, a pointing with the fingers. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 387/1 Digitation..is a bare or simple touching of a thing. 1721–1800in Bailey.
2. The condition of being digitate; division into fingers or finger-like processes.
[1656Blount Glossogr., Digitation, the form of the fingers of both hands joyned together, or the manner of their so joyning. Cotgr. 1721–1800in Bailey] .1847Craig, Digitation, division into fingers, or finger-like processes, as exhibited by several of the muscles..in their coalescence on the ribs.
3. concr. (Zool. and Bot.) One of a number of finger-like processes or digitate divisions.
1709Blair in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 114 Where the Ligaments cease, they become..at their upper extremities half round, and sometimes form'd into Digitations. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 17 Sometimes, as in the Bats, the digitations of the anterior feet are greatly elongated. 1837Quain Elem. Anat. (ed. 4) 350 Its anterior border presents eight or nine fleshy points or digitations. 1856–8W. Clarke Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 393 Wings..cloven, with fringed digitations. |