illutation

English

Etymology

From il- (“in”) + Latin lutum (“mud”).

Noun

illutation (countable and uncountable, plural illutations)

(archaic) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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