exestuation

English edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɛɡˌzɛstjuˈeɪʃən/, /ɛɡˌzɛst͡ʃuˈeɪʃən/

Noun edit

exestuation (usually uncountable, plural exestuations)

(obsolete) A boiling up; effervescence.
- 1695, Lucretius, translated by Thomas Creech, Of the Nature of Things:
  The exestuation of the Waters of the Sea

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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