Obs. [n. of action f. prec.: see -ATION.] Sifting; also fig.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 270. Cribration is the preparation of medicaments by a sive or searce.
a. 1631. Donne, in Select. (1840), 224. In the cribration and sifting of our consciences.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 772. The Chyle, which by various cribrations and circulations, at last comes to constitute the whole mass of bloud.
