Forms: 6 exsiccatione, 7 exiccation, exsiccasion, 7– exsiccation. [ad. L. exsiccātiōn-em, n. of action f. exsiccāre: see EXSICCATE v. Cf. Fr. exsiccation.] The action of drying what is moist; complete removal or absorption of moisture; thoroughly dried condition, absolute dryness.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 10/2. Exsiccatione of the Rheumes.

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1614.  Sylvester, Tobacco Battered, 478. Som also think it causeth exsiccation (As of the Bloud) of Seed of generation.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta, ii. 25. Let wine bee moderately vsed, that neither … exiccation, or drunkennesse follow.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 95. For exsiccation of wounds.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 466. Neither is an absolute degree of exsiccation in any wise necessary.

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1826.  Blackw. Mag., XX. 324. The exsiccation of the pond in St. James’s Park.

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1832.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. 202. The aërial current … arrives in a state of complete exsiccation at Peru.

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