exantlation

English

Etymology

From exantlate +‎ -ation.

Noun

exantlation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The action of drawing something out, as though from a well.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:

     Truth, which wise men say doth lye in a Well, is not recoverable, but by exantlation.

   • 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, Penguin 2004, p. 13:

     I do not doubt to lay open, by untwisting or unwinding, and either to draw up by exantlation, or display by incision.