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Webster 1828 Edition

Assation

ASSA'TION

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Noun.

[L. assatus.] A roasting. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

assation

assation

English

Noun

assation ‎(plural assations)

(obsolete) Roasting, baking.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:
  Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation.