Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
edema , 1. - noun The act of moistening, wetting, or watering.
- noun In medicine: The preparing of a medicine by steeping it for a time in water, in order to soften and moisten it, to cleanse it, to prevent its subtile parts from being dissipated in grinding, or the like.
- noun The application of moistening remedies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A moistening.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
moistening .
Etymologies
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Latin humectatio: compare French humectation.
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Examples
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Clays by fire are deprived of their coherent quality, which cannot be restored to them by pulverization, nor by humectation.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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