cicuration

English

Etymology

Compare French cicuration.

Noun

cicuration (uncountable)

(obsolete) The act of taming.
- 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
  This holds not only in domestick and mansuete birds; for then it might be thought the effect of cicuration or institution, but also in the wild

Related terms

cicurate

References

“cicuration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

cruciation

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