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rotundation en · NOUN

Etymology

From rotund + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The state or quality of being rotund.
    • Here there is not so large a rotundation but only of 50 days. 1650, Golden Chaine of Time Leading unto Christ, Published by Act of the Last General Assembly, page 40:
    • This is no country for bellies I assure you, though our food is all that I can desire yet the exercise required to procure it is a sure preventative against rotundation. 2013, Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson, This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson, The Oklahoma University Press, page 249:
    • In the angularity of a seed, or in the ineffable thickness of the membrane, or in the elongation or rotundation thereof, will never transform a deciduous Larch into an evergreen Cedar, nor a verdant Cedar into a Silver Fir. 1866, John Nelson, Pinaceæ: Being a Handbook of the Firs and Pines, Hatchard and Co., page 85: