Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of making soft or supple.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of making soft or supple.
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- noun obsolete, rare The act of making soft or supple.
Etymologies
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Latin malacissare to make soft, Ancient Greek.
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qroqqa commented on the word malacissation
the act of making something soft or supple: only used in seventeenth-century translations of Bacon, rendering his Latin malacissatio, from Greek μαλακ- "soft". The -iss- is apparently a variant of the Greek -iz- suffix.
July 31, 2008