pistillation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pistillum + -ation.
Noun edit
pistillation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The action of pounding with a pestle.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch. 5:
- [They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.
References edit
Thomas Sheridan (1780) A General Dictionary of the English Language, Dodsley, page PT717: “PISTILLATION, pis-til-la'-fhun. s. The act of pounding in a mortar.”