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- noun Plural form of
oscitation .
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Examples
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Rhizotome, who lay stooping on the pump, raised his drowsy head, and lazily yawning, by natural sympathy set almost everyone in the ship a-yawning too; then he asked for a remedy against oscitations and gapings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Rhizotome, who lay stooping on the pump, raised his drowsy head, and lazily yawning, by natural sympathy set almost everyone in the ship a-yawning too; then he asked for a remedy against oscitations and gapings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"Good morning!" said the old custodian, as he stood in the door of the lodge, brushing out with his knuckles the cobwebs of sleep entangled in his eyelashes, and ventilating the apartments of his fleshly tabernacle with prolonged oscitations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Rhizotome, who lay stooping on the pump, raised his drowsy head, and lazily yawning, by natural sympathy set almost everyone in the ship a-yawning too; then he asked for a remedy against oscitations and gapings.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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