excalceation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin excalceātus + -tion.
Noun edit
excalceation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The removal of the shoes.
- 1715, Hugo Grotius, John Morrice, Of the Rights of War and Peace:
- the very Law of Excalceation (the pulling off the Shooe) […] had something of Dishonour in it
References edit
- “excalceation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.