deoppilation

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word deoppilation. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word deoppilation, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say deoppilation in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word deoppilation you have here. The definition of the word deoppilation will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofdeoppilation, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ oppilation.

Noun

deoppilation (countable and uncountable, plural deoppilations)

  1. (obsolete) The removal of whatever stops up the passages.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      yet are the dissoluble parts extracted, whereby it becomes effectual in deoppilations, and therefore for speedier operation we make extinctions, infusions, and the like

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deoppilation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)