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English
Etymology
From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”).
Noun
piscation (usually uncountable, plural piscations)
- (obsolete) fishing; fishery
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes
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