[ad. L. ēmaciātiōn-em, f. ēmaciāre to EMACIATE.] The action of emaciating; the process or state of being emaciated; abnormal leanness. Also fig.
1662. Graunt, Observ. Bills Mortality, 24. Searchers … cannot tell whether this emaciation or leanness were from a Phthisis or from an Hectick Fever.
1793. T. Beddoes, Calcul., Cont. 13. Acids produce emaciation.
1834. J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest (ed. 4), 329. A girl … died … without any emaciation.
1872. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxix. 10. The emaciation which these exercises wrought.
