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▪ I. † diˈlation1 Obs.
Also 5–6 de-, dy-.
[a. OF. dilacion (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. dilation, It. dilazione, ad. L. dīlātiōn-em, n. of action from differre, dīlāt- to defer, delay, put off: cf. dilate v.1]
Delay, procrastination, postponement.
14..Lydg. Temple of Glas 877 Beþe not astoneid of no wilfulnes, Ne nouȝt dispeired of þis dilacioun. 1430― Chron. Troy iii. xxv, Without abode or longe delacyon. Ibid. iv. xxxiv, I wyll nowe make no dylacyon. 1552Latimer Serm. Lord's Pray. iv. 31 The Angels..whiche doe the will and pleasure of God without dilation. 1585Parsons Chr. Exerc. ii. v. 350 So the matter by delation came to no effect. 1627Bp. Hall Heaven vpon Earth §5 Some desperate debters, whom, after long dilations of payments..we altogether let goe for disability. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 160 The Dilation that attended the ultimate Appeal.
▪ II. dilation2|daɪˈleɪʃən, dɪ-|
[Improperly f. dilate v.2, which does not contain the verbal suffix -ate, but a stem -late from L. lāt-us broad, so that the etymologically correct formation is dilatation. (Cf. coercion, dispution for disputation, etc.).]
1. = dilatation 1.
1598Florio, Dilatione, a dilation, enlarging or ouerspreading. [But 1611 corrects to Dilatatione a dilating, Dilatione a delaying.] 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 76 The dilations of the arteries. 1615Crooke Body of Man 641 The dilation is the cause of deepe and base voyces. 1796Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1799) 125 The beauty of its dilation and contraction. 1847Tennyson Princ. vi. 172 At first her eye with slow dilation roll'd Dry flame. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 27 Transverse dilation of the thorax.
fig.1647H. More Poems 293 The soul..a sure fixation And centrall depth it hath, and free dilation. 1787J. Frere in Microcosm No. 25 ⁋8 The mind perceives a sensible dilation of its faculties. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Child Angel, Those natural dilations of the youthful spirit.
†2. = dilatation 2. Obs.
a1631Donne in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xc. 14 A prayer not only of appropriation to ourselves..but of a charitable dilation and extension to others.
3. = dilatation 3.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vii. §6. 28 In the description or dilation of his works. 1623Cockeram ii, A Speaking at large, Dilation. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxxix. 377 By needless dilations, and the affectations of circumlocution. 1851A. Strickland Queens Scot. II. 193 Frivolous terms and dilations cut away.
▸ dilation and extraction n. Surg. (more fully intact dilation and extraction) a method of performing abortion, chiefly in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, by dilation of the cervix and extraction of the fetus, without the need for disarticulation but usually requiring suction decompression to allow the head to pass the cervix.
1984Washington Post 25 Aug. g3/4 An abortion performed by an experienced physician early in pregnancy is an exceedingly safe procedure..and, using the technique of *dilation and extraction, can be quick and relatively painless. 1996Reprod. Freedom News 4 Oct. 4 The final version of the bill..sought to ban an abortion method, technically termed ‘intact dilation and evacuation’ or ‘dilation and extraction’ (D&X), primarily used later in pregnancies in cases in which a woman's life or health is threatened, including cases of severe fetal anomaly. 2001Elle Mar. 275/1 At issue was a Nebraska statute banning the rare late-term abortion procedure known as D&X (short for intact dilation and extraction).
▸ dilation and evacuation n. Surg. a method of performing abortion, chiefly in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, by dilation of the cervix and a combination of curettage and vacuum aspiration to remove the fetus; cf. intact dilation and evacuation n. at intact adj. Additions.
1974Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, Pennsylvania) 28 Mar. 24/3 The *dilation and evacuation method is most commonly used to abort fetuses up to the age of 12 weeks. 1989E. Keynes & R. K. Miller Court vs. Congress ix. 270 The dissenters claimed that most postviability abortions are emergency procedures that usually employ dilation and evacuation, in which case there is no chance for fetal survival. 2005New Yorker (Nexis) 28 Nov. 70 The law..was so vaguely worded that it would have banned not only D & X abortions but also the much more common ‘dilation and evacuation’ (D & E) procedure.
▪ III. dilation3
obs. var. of delation, accusation. |