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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of basking in the sun; exposure to sunlight.

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  1. n. The act of apricating, or basking in the sun.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Basking in the sun.

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  • “Oh! that you were more acquainted with this, this aprication, so to speak, that is, sunning yourselves and warming in the sun, the exposing and opening of your hearts frequently in secret, before this sun of”

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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  • fbharjo How about precocious aprication? Apricots do get the early sun of the season and cook first! (if they don't freeze) Oct 13, 2008

  • chained_bear I think it's related to apricity. OED says simply 'basking in the sun.' Oct 13, 2008

  • reesetee Does aprication make your skin resemble an apricot? Feb 23, 2008

  • chained_bear "'This I attribute to my practice of aprication,' said Stephen... It was true: Stephen regularly sat in the tops with nothing on and he had none of the dank, corpselike pallor of naked Europeans."
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 302 Feb 23, 2008

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