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embarkation|ɛmbɑːˈkeɪʃən|
Also 6–9 -cation, 8 imbarkation, -cation.
[a. F. embarcation, f. embarquer embark v.1]
1. The action or process of embarking. lit. & fig.
c1645Howell Lett. (1655) I. iii. xviii. 26, I can find no commodity of imbarcation at Saint Malos. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. 23 Very sollicitous for the Embarcation of the Army. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 172 To hasten the embarkation of the troops. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Disp. VI. 6, I shall delay the embarkation. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 222 The point of embarcation was close by the..abode of Godwine.
attrib.1884Pall Mall G. 16 Sept. 8/2 The embarkation list..will include twenty-three officers. 1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 10/2 As the ship was about to sail, investigations were made, and..the embarkation officer went aboard to see the supply. 1904Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 6/7 The embarkation staff at the port. 1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 2 Every one was new to embarkation-duty. 1946Koestler Thieves in Night iii. 322 And back home in Suffolk on embarkation leave he had listened to a sermon.
†2. concr. A body of troops embarked, gone or put on board ship. Obs.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5877/1 The Transports..were taking on Board the third..Imbarkation. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 252 Another and much greater embarkation followed.
†3. A vessel, boat. Obs. [cf. F. embarcation,Sp. embarcacion.]
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2525/1 They have..taken divers..small Embarkations. 1705Ibid. 4115/4 Sloops, and other Imbarcations. 1781Rennell in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 106 Embarkations..traverse the inundation. 1804H. T. Colebrooke Husb. of Bengal (1806) 10 The peasants repairing to the market..on embarkations. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) II. 179 A..rotten and crazy embarkation. |