Also 7–9 expuition. [ad. L. exspuitiōn-em, n. of action f. exspuĕre, f. ex- out + spuĕre to spit. Cf. F. exspuition.] The action of spitting out from the mouth. Const. of. Also transf. and concr.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 121–2. Whose office was … the potation of the same aliment, but liquid, expuition, and locution.
1759. Darwin, in Phil. Trans., LI. 527. That these hæmorrhages were from the pulmonary artery … appears from the sudden exspuition.
1852–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1147/2. A sort of expuition.
