adustion

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adustion

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Learned borrowing from Latin adustiō.

noun adustions

countable, obsolete, uncountable The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.
countable, obsolete, uncountable Cauterization. some use to apply this to the fat, but in our time it is all out of use, and seeing yet the pains of the hip do rather fall into the thighs, shins, and legs, then ascend up into the Arms and shoulders, Aetius and Cornarius say, that this adustion for the hips was used in the ancient time divers ways

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noun the act of burning or heating to dryness

Português	adustão

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@misc{adustion_2026,
  title = {adustion},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adustion},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}