deoppilation

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deoppilation (countable and uncountable, plural deoppilations)

(obsolete) The removal of whatever stops up the passages.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  yet are the dissoluble parts extracted, whereby it becomes effectual in deoppilations, and therefore for speedier operation we make extinctions, infusions, and the like

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “deoppilation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)