[ad. L. ēvulsiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvellĕre, f. ē- out + vellĕre to pluck. Cf. Fr. évulsion.] The action of pulling or plucking out by force; forcible extraction.
1611. Chapman, Iliad, XXI. 291/171. His foe was tugging hard, To get his lance out: thrise he pluckt; and thrise, sure Pelias bard His wisht euulsion.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 146. The gall with rosin of Cedar hindereth the growing of hairs on the eye-liddes, after evulsion.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1865. J. G. Wood, Homes without H., 27. Its [the fur of the animal] evulsion produces no such disastrous effects.
1879. J. Timbs, in Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 107/1. Mr. L. … removed by evulsion both sides of the great toe-nail.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
