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exsiccation en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin exsiccatio, exsiccationis, from Latin exsicco: compare French exsiccation.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
   • This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks. 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
   • That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971

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Relateds

exsiccant · exsiccate · desiccation