imbibitionn.
/ɪmbɪˈbɪʃən/ The action of imbibing (in the various senses of the verb).† 1. Soaking or saturation with liquid, steeping or solution in liquid; combination of solid and liquid by this process; an instance of this; concrete a solution. to lie in imbibition, to lie a-soak or a-steep. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [noun] > esp. in order to dissolve
imbibition1471
the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun] > solution
dissolution1558
solution1594
imbibition1626
deliquescence1756
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy vi. xxviii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 168 Mo Imbybycyons many must we have yett.
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 36 in Jewell House Water wherein good store of Cow dung hath lyen in imbibition.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §298 The Congruity of Bodies..if it be more, maketh a perfecter Imbibition, and Incorporation.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 64 They steep the seed..in..an imbibition of fair water and Sheep's dung.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. ii. vi. 185 Mixed with them by frequent Imbibitions, etc. continually grinding, imbibing, calcining and reducing.
2.
a. Drinking in, sucking in, absorption; assimilation by absorption: usually of moisture or matter in solution, but sometimes of aeriform bodies or of solid particles by a liquid.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [noun]
imbibition1601
absorption1675
aspiration1842
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > imbibition
imbibition1601
imbibation1883
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 139 After this imbibition, when that the Frumenty hath thus drunk vp all the water.
1673 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5159 A kind of Imbibition..of certain Particles of an Aereal Nature by the Water.
1771 R. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 329 An imbibition of the particles of the several salts into the pores of the water.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 89 That their nutrition is by imbibition or immediate absorption.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 710 Imbibition is the term given..to the capacity of organised structures to absorb water between their molecules with such force that they are thus driven apart.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 711 When wood distends on imbibition or contracts on desiccation.
b. Drinking. (Affected use.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun]
drinkc888
draughtc1200
drinkingc1200
wetting1340
beveragec1390
receipta1393
bever1499
potation1509
quaff1579
watering1598
wipe1600
sorbition1623
imbibation1826
imbibition1844
bibition1853
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xxxix. 63 The imbibition of a little..strong beer.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 485 The free imbibition of port.
3. The imbibing, ‘drinking in’, or absorption of knowledge, opinions, etc.
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society > education > learning > [noun] > assimilating ideas
imbibition1603
digestiona1610
intussusception1860
osmosis1930
1603 P. Holland tr. J. Amyot in tr. Plutarch Morals 50 The imbibition of good nourture in childhood.
1859 J. G. Holland Gold Foil xxv. 296 Every imbibition of truth.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World 352 If all one's truth is derived by imbibition from the Church.
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