digitation
nounUK /dɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən/
Etymology From digitate + -ation.
1
Obsolete Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
- At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 64:
- Derived terms
- interdigitation
- Related terms
- digitalization, digitization, multidigitate, prestidigitation, dactyly