Chem. and Min. [f. L. ēmollesc-ĕre to grow soft + -ENCE.] ‘A state of softening; the softened condition of a melting body before it fuses’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1794. Kirwan, Min., I. 43. The … lowest degree is emollescence.
1847. in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
