deplication
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin deplicare (“to unfold”), from de- + plicare (“to fold”).
Noun edit
deplication (uncountable)
- (obsolete) An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.
- 1648, Walter Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies:
- an unfolding and deplication of the inside of this order
References edit
- “deplication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.