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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

palus

a stake +

-ficare

(in comp.) to make: cf. F.

palification

. See

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

[R.]

Sir H. Wotton.

Noun.

[from L. palus,a stake or post.] The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm.

palification ‎(uncountable)

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
- 1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history
  After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification […]