inquination

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English

Etymology

Latin inquinatio.

Noun

inquination (plural inquinations)

  1. (obsolete) defilement; pollution; stain
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      the middle action , which produceth such imperfect bodies , is fitly called (by some of the ancients) inquination, or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “inquination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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