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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forcipation en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin forcip(is) + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers
    • And à punishment surely it is , though of great terror , yet by reason of the quick dispatching , of less torment far than either the wheel or forcipation , yea than simple burning 1592, Francis Bacon, Observations on a Libel: