? Obs. [a. F. assation (16th c.), n. of action f. L. assāre to roast, f. assus roast.] Roasting or baking.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. x. 40. Mercuriall spirites … do vanish away by their assation.
1650. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2), 151. In the assation or roasting, it [an egg] will sometimes abate a dragme.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Assation, in respect of culinary matters, is more frequently called roasting.
1816. T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, 66. The malignant adhibition of fire and all its diabolical processes of elixion and assation.
