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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
crispation en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
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(archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle.
Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.
1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:crispation of the muscles
THE NYMPH: (Loftily.) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light. (She arches her body in lascivious crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth.).
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:crispation of the stomach
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