transvasation

English

Etymology

From trans- + Latin vas, vasis (“vessel”).

Noun

transvasation (countable and uncountable, plural transvasations)

1. (obsolete) The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXIV.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     This transvasation ought so long to be continued out of one vessell into another, untill such time as it have done casting any residence downward.

References

• “transvasation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.