vermination

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin verminatio the worms, a disease of animals, a crawling, itching pain.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /vɜː(ɹ)mɪˈneɪʃən/

Noun edit

vermination (usually uncountable, plural verminations)

(archaic) The generation or breeding of vermin.
- 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
  As Seigneur Redi was one of the first that made it his business to discard anomalous generation, so he tried more experiments relating to the vermination of ſerpents
(archaic) A griping of the bowels.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vermination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)