sputation

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English

Etymology

From Latin sputare (to spit), intensitive from spuere (to spit). Compare French sputation.

Pronunciation

Noun

sputation

  1. The act of spitting; expectoration.
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      ſurprized with a ſanguin ſputation upon a ſudden cohibition of their Hæmorrboids

References

sputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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