Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of drying; especially, gradual expulsion of moisture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act or process of drying.
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- noun The act or process of
drying .
Etymologies
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Latin siccatio.
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Examples
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The fifth mummy of peculiar power was made from criminals that had been hanged; "for from such there is a gentle siccation, that expungeth the watery humour, without destroying the oil and spirituall, which is cherished by the heavenly luminaries, and strengthened continually by the affluence and impulses of the celestial spirits; whence it may be properly called by the name of constellated or celestial mummie."
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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