Obs. [ad. L. confricātiōn-em, n. of action from confricāre: see prec. (So in mod.F.)] Rubbing together, friction.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 23 (MS. B.). Þat þe ende of þe bonys … scholde han a softere confricatioun in here junttes.
1594. Mirr. Policy (1599), 199. Which by confrication moueth the appetite and desire.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 19. Confrications: for those vain Sophists mutually rubbed each other, like scabbed sheep.
[1795–8. in T. Maurice, Hindostan (1820), I. I. xii. 514. From the violent confrication of all which a raging fire was produced.]
