frication

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  1. The act of rubbing; friction. Fricacion is one of the euacuacions, yea, or clensynges of mankinde, as all the learned affirmeth: … a course warme clothe, to chafe or rubbe the hedde, necke, breast, armeholes, bellie, thighes, &c., … is good to open the pores. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 246, note. Frications used in the morning serve especially to this intention; but this must evermore accompany them, that after the frication, the part be lightly anointed with oyl. Bacon, Hist. Life and Death. The like, saith Jorden, we observe in canes and woods that are unctuous and full of oyle, which will yield fire by frication or collision. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 21.

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  1. Early modern English fricacion; from Old French fricacion, frication = Spanish fricacion = Italian fricazione, from Latin fricatio(n-), from fricare, past participle fricatus, rub: see friction.
 

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