assation
English
editEtymology
editFrom French assation, from Latin assare (“to roast”).
Noun
editassation (plural assations)
- (obsolete) Roasting, baking.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:
- Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation.