extricationn.
/ɛkstrɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of extricating or disentangling; disentanglement from an involved situation, from difficulty or perplexity.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > making easy > freeing from difficulty or perplexity
expediting1643
extrication1650
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 45 I shall be allowed the full benefit of all the..extrications..that I..can devise.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 62. ⁋3 Too..embarrassed to think much on any thing but the means of extrication.
1854 J. Bright Let. 29 Oct. in Speeches Public Policy (1868) I. 534 A people whose extrication from ignorance and poverty can only be hoped for from the continuance of peace.
1854 H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 27 Immense is the difficulty attending the clear extrication and expression of truth in intellectual philosophy.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 361 I owed my extrication..to a team-dog.
b. Escape from the egg; hatching.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg > hatching from egg
disclosinga1513
disclose1548
hatch1622
disclosure1640
extrication1797
exclusion1835–6
hatch-out1895
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 288 Young Turkies, after their extrication from the shell, are very tender.
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. xii. §119. 623 After extrication, the tadpole rapidly grows.
2. Chemistry. The action or process of setting free (an element, gas, etc.) from something containing it; = evolution n. 11. Now rare.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > extrication
extrication1680
1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. ii. 69 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) We may suppose it [acid spirit] to have been made rather by transmutation, than extrication.
1790 Keir in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 365 No extrication of gas appeared until [etc.].
1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xi. 138 Heat and vapour..accompanied..with an extrication of light.
1811 J. Abernethy Surg. Wks. I. 39 The extrication of inflammable air.
1856 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. II. ii. ii. §286 Chemical action attended with extrication of light and heat.
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