sputation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sputare (“to spit”), intensitive from spuere (“to spit”). Compare French sputation.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sputation
- The act of spitting; expectoration.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- ſurprized with a ſanguin ſputation upon a ſudden cohibition of their Hæmorrboids
References edit
“sputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.