† exolutionn.
Obsolete.
1.
a.
(a) 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.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > letting out > condition of being let out
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 41 There is an exolusion, and so a defect of vitall spirits.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. 805 An..exolution of the spirits like sowning.
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 46 A canine appetite, & other ill symptomes caused by the exolution of the skin.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Dddd4 Honey..boyled to the exolution of the aqueous humidity.
1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar i. 4 At that time of the year, our bodies suffer a greater exolution of Spirit.
(b) Used for: dissolution, end.
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1846 Dr. 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness
faintise1297
weaknessa1300
faintc1320
feebleness1340
languishingc1384
lamea1400
unferea1400
unferenessa1400
unwielda1400
impotence1406
imbecility?a1425
languisha1425
languoringa1438
unwieldness1437
faintnessa1440
impotency1440
infirmityc1440
debility1484
unlustiness1486
resolution1547
unwieldiness1575
languishment1576
infirmness1596
weakness1603
prostrationa1626
exolution1634
languidness1634
prosternation1650
faintingnessa1661
debilitude1669
flaccidity1676
atony1693
puniness1727
faintishness1733
adynamia1743
asthenia1802
adynamy1817
weakliness1826
tonelessness1873
atonicity1900
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxii. xx. 839 By this kinde of disease [sc. Plague] there commeth..exolution [1678 exsolution] of the faculties.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. ix. 101 The exolution and languor ensuing that act [of spermaticall emission].
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋ 198 The exolution of the powers thence depending, would not bear those swift motions.
1661 in T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2)
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Exolution,..faintness and loosness all over the body.
c. In mystical sense.
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1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 83 If any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution.
2. ‘A full and perfect payment’ (Blount Glossogr. 1674).
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1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4)
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Exolution, full payment.
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