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assation ? Obs.|æˈseɪʃən|
[a. F. assation (16th c.), n. of action f. L. assāre to roast, f. assus roast.]
Roasting or baking.
1605Timme Quersit. i. x. 40 Mercuriall spirites..do vanish away by their assation. 1650Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2) 151 In the assation or roasting, it [an egg] will sometimes abate a dragme. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Assation, in respect of culinary matters, is more frequently called roasting. 1815T. Peacock Headlong Hall 66 The malignant adhibition of fire and all its diabolical processes of elixion and assation. |