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exsiccation (countable and uncountable, plural exsiccations)

1. (archaic) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971:

     That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:

     This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks.

関連する語

• exsiccant
• exsiccate
• desiccation

参照

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