exilition
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin exilīo (“leap up, bound”) + -ion.
Noun
editexilition (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of suddenly jumping up or out.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- From Salt-petre proceedeth the force and the report; for Sulphur and Small-coal mixed will not take fire with noise, or exilition […]