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radication en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English radicacyon, from Medieval Latin rādīcātio.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The process of taking root, or state of being rooted.
   • the radication of habits
   • So that an essential increase of charity means nothing else but that it is yet more in its subject, which implies a greater radication in its subject. 1917, Fathers of the English Dominican Province (translation), Thomas Aquinas (original), Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 24:
2. (uncountable, usually) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
   • radication of plants
   • They had a due diffuſion of their roots on all or both ſides, vvhereby they maintained ſome proportion to their height, in Trees of large radication. 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 161–162:
   • I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from 1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98:
3. (rare, uncountable, usually) The process of extracting a number's root.

Forms

Antonyms

eradication

Relateds

radicate

Synonyms

settlement

Translations (4)

pl zakorzenienie (process of taking root, or state of being rooted) · ja 定着 (process of taking root, or state of being rooted) · pl pierwiastkowanie (the process of extracting a number's root) · es radicación (the process of extracting a number's root)