corrivation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin corrivatio.
Noun
editcorrivation (countable and uncountable, plural corrivations)
- (obsolete) The flowing of different streams into one.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- […] and so likewise about corrivations of water to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drain fens, bogs, and moors.
- The concentration of waters from a watershed to a remote outlet.
Translations
editconcentration of waters
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