distriction

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin districtio (“a stretching out”).

Noun edit

distriction

(obsolete) Sudden display; flash; glitter.
- c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, Of the Aspect
  A smile […] breaks out with the brightest distriction.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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