calcation
nounEtymology From calcate (“to trample”) + -ion (“forming abstract nouns”), from Latin calcatus (“trampled”), the past participle of calcāre (“to trample”) parsed via English -ate (“forming verbs”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Doublet of calque.
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Rare Synonym of trampling, the act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
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Rare Synonym of kick, the act of kicking someone or something, an instance of kicking.
- Even a few supernumerary calcations would have been overlooked.1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 12, page 342: