assation

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English

Etymology

From French assation, from Latin assare (to roast).

Noun

assation (plural assations)

  1. (obsolete) Roasting, baking.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:
      Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation.