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† vapoˈration Obs.
Also 4–6 -acion, 6 -acyon, 5 vapouracioun.
[ad. L. vapōrātio, n. of action f. vapōrāre: see prec. Cf. Sp. vaporacion, It. -azione.]
The action of vaporizing; conversion into, production of, vapour.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxi. (Bodl. MS.), Also of vaporacion of fumosite þat he [sc. the sea] casteþ vpward and bredeþ myste and cloudes. 1456Sir G. Haye Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 118 Tendar metis of licht and sone degestioun, and delicious thingis and of sutil vapouracioun moystis. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. d ij b, Blud lettyng..minisheth vaporation that gothe to the heed & troublethe the wyttis. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 35 Make a vaporacion beneth with Rammes greace, or fat, waxe, pitche and cumin. 1623Cockeram i, Vaporation, a casting forth of vapours. 1651French Distill. i. 9 It may be done.. by Corosion, By Fumigation or Vaporation. 1720S. Parker Bibliotheca Biblica I. 438 By Conflagration, and Congelation,..by Vaporation, and Evaporation: by Sublimation, and Precipitation. |