a. Obs.–0 [f. L. sorōriant-, sorōrians, app. f. soror sister.] (See quot.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sororiant Virgin, a yong maid, whose Brests began to be embossed and round, or set out for shew.
So Sororiation. rare. (See quots.)
1658. Phillips, Sororiation, a swelling, or becoming round, and embossed like a young Virgin’s breasts.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1175/1. Sororiatio,… the equally progressing development of the mammæ in the young female: sororiation.
