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exaration|ɛksəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. late L. exarātiōn-em, n. of action f. exarāre: see exarate v.]
†1. The action of ploughing. Obs.—0
1658–96in Phillips. 1721–1800in Bailey.
2. The action of tracing (characters) upon stone, or writing. Also concr. a writing; a composition; rare in mod. use.
1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 76 This pleadeth the necessitie of..their exaration, or drawing, as it were, with his pencill on the Tables of stone. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. to Pordage's Mystic Div. 94 These exarations of his Penn. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 389 The Whimsical Exarations of Socinus, Crellius, etc. 1755in Johnson. 1840W. H. Morley in Lane Arab. Nts. (1841) III. 743 The story in the Persian MS...is written in three different hands. The first part..has been apparently added since the exaration of the other two. |