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English
Etymology
From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).
Noun
emication (usually uncountable, plural emications)
- (archaic) A spark, flickering or scintillation.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, Chapter V:Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with noise and emication, as also a crasse and fumide exhalation, which are caused from this combat of the sulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous spirits of Aqua fortis
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