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† exoˈlution Obs.
Also 7 exolusion, exsolution.
[ad. L. ex(s)olūtiōn-em, n. of action f. exsolvĕre: see next.]
1. The action of loosening or setting free; the state of being loosened or set free; esp. the emission or escape of ‘animal spirits’ formerly assumed as the cause of swooning.
1615Crooke Body of Man 41 There is an exolusion, and so a defect of vitall spirits. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. 805 An..exolution of the spirits like sowning. 1652French Yorksh. Spa iv. 46 A canine appetite, & other ill symptomes caused by the exolution of the skin. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 591 Honey..boyled to the exolution of the aqueous humidity. 1662Stubbe Ind. Nectar i. 4 At that time of the year, our bodies suffer a greater exolution of Spirit.
¶ Used for: Dissolution, end.
1846Dr. S. Brown Hist. Sci. in Lectures (1858) I. 339 The evening..twilight of an era is always the time when the poets who are to..sing its..approaching exolution come abroad.
b. Relaxation (of the bodily powers); faintness.
1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xxii. xx. (1678) 504 By this kind of disease [Plague] there cometh..exsolution of the faculties. 1650Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2) iii. ix. 101 The exolution and languor ensuing that act [of spermaticall emission]. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋ 198 The exolution of the powers thence depending, would not bear those swift motions. 1674–81in Blount Glossogr.; whence 1692–1732in Coles.
c. In mystical sense.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. v. 83 If any have been so happy as truely to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution.
2. ‘A full and perfect payment’ (Blount Glossogr. 1674).
Hence1692–1732in Coles. |