Obs. [f. prec.: see -ATION.]
1. The action of drawing out, as water from a well; fig. only.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. v. 18. Truth which wise men say doth lye in a well, is not recoverable but by exantlation.
1650. Charleton, trans. Van Helmont’s Delir. Catarrhi, Pref. 7. A deplorable remora to the timely exantlation of Truth.
1704. Swift, T. Tub, Introd. To draw up by exantlation or display by incision.
1731–1800. in Bailey; and in mod. Dicts.
2. Exhaustion; exhausted condition.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., 42. Most of them have annexed their own cruelties … rottennesse, exantlation of their powers.
