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Webster 1913 Edition

Inanition

Inˊa-ni′tion

,
Noun.
[F.
inanition
, L.
inanitio
emptiness, fr.
inanire
to empty, fr.
inanis
empty. Cf.
Inane
.]
The condition of being inane; emptiness; lack of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from lack of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Feeble from
inanition
, inert from weariness.
Landor.
Repletion and
inanition
may both do harm in two contrary extremes.
Burton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inanition

INANI'TION

,
Noun.
[ L. inanis, empty.]
Emptiness; want of fullness; as inanition of body or of the vessels.

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