Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of fumigating, literally from below; fumigation.
- noun The act of burning perfumes: one of the ceremonies in incantation.
- noun A fume; especially, a preparation used in fumigating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The operation of suffumigating.
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- noun archaic The
burning of substances to producefumes as part of somemagical rituals .
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Examples
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Donsterswivel, with much talk of planetary influences, and spirits, and "suffumigation," presently set fire to a little pile of chips, and when the flame was at the highest flung in a handful of perfumes, which produced a strong and pungent odour.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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But 'after some time of invocation, Evans was taken out of the room, and carried into the fields near Battersea causeway, close to the Thames:' taken by the spirits, because the magician 'had not at the time of invocation made any suffumigation;' for spirits must always be treated gingerly.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Only a simple suffumigation," said the Baronet, "accompanied by availing ourselves of a suitable planetary hour."
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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Lilly writes that one Evans, having raised a spirit, at the request of Lord Bothwell and Sir K. Digby, and forgotten a suffumigation, the spirit, enraged, snatched him out from his circle, and carried him from his house in the Minories into a field near Battersea.
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Here was the suffumigation; here was the muttering wizard; here was the desert place to which Aladdin was decoyed by the false uncle.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Simple suffumigation? simple nonsensification --- planetary hour? planetary fiddlestick!
The Antiquary 1845
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You see I would draw a pentagon within a circle, which is no trouble at all, and make my suffumigation within it, and dere we would be like in one strong castle, and you would hold de sword while I did say de needful worts.
The Antiquary 1845
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I do not say dere is not de spirit in it, because of de suffumigation; but, if you are not afraid, he shall not be invisible.
The Antiquary 1845
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You see I would draw a pentagon within a circle, which is no trouble at all, and make my suffumigation within it, and dere we would be like in one strong castle, and you would hold de sword while I did say de needful worts.
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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You see I would draw a pentagon within a circle, which is no trouble at all, and make my suffumigation within it, and dere we would be like in one strong castle, and you would hold de sword while I did say de needful worts.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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