† laetationn.
Obsolete.
A manuring; also quasi-concrete manure. Frequent in Evelyn; in the Advertisement prefixed to ed. 3 of Sylva, 1679 he says that ‘the meaner capacities’ among his readers may ‘read for letation, dung’.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun]
gooding1473
manuring1577
battling1600
fatting1600
fertilage1610
fertilizing1655
laetation1664
mending1707
top-dressing1744
boning1795
caprification1836
manurance1854
management1877
soil amendment1915
side dressing1950
fertigation1967
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1670) i. ii. 11 Meliorating barren-ground with sweet and comminuted lætations.
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