sb. Obs. [ad. L. trītūra a rubbing, a threshing, f. trīt-, ppl. stem of terĕre to rub; cf. F. triture (1610 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Friction or galling (of a yoke). rare–1.
1607. J. Carpenter, Plaine Mans Plough, 221. The oxe accustomed to the yoke or triture … dooth often … returne to the yoke againe.
2. Pounding or grinding; comminution; trituration.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 57. Humectation, Infection or Triture are wont to be reduced to Infusion.
1718. Quincy, Compl. Disp., 12. The continual Triture has the same Effects upon it, as repeated Sublimation.
1767. Percival, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 226. The powder and the water were well incorporated by triture.
1790. Wedgwood, ibid., LXXX. 308. To try whether this tedious process of solution could be expedited by triture or calcination, some of the mineral was rubbed in a mortar.
Hence † Triture v., Obs., trans. to triturate.
1773. Clegg, in Phil. Trans., LXIV. 49. Four penny-weights of each of the astringents … were tritured in plain water.
