pistillationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: pĭs'tĭ.lāʹshən, IPA: /ˌpɪs.tɪˈleɪ̯.ʃən/

名詞

pistillation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The action of pounding with a pestle.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch. 5:

     [They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.

参照

• Thomas Sheridan (1780), “PISTILLATION”, in A General Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, London: Dodsley, →OCLC, page 698: “pi̍s-ti̍l-lảˊ-ſhu̍n. ſ. The act of pounding in a mortar.”
• Walker, John (1791), “pistillation”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC.
• Latham, Robert Gordon (1882), “Pistillátion”, in A Dictionary of the English Language, volume II, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 521