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English
Etymology
From trans- + Latin vas, vasis (“vessel”).
Noun
transvasation (countable and uncountable, plural transvasations)
- (obsolete) The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:This transvasation ought so long to be continued out of one vessell into another, untill such time as it have done casting any residence downward.
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