exsiccation
nounEtymology Borrowed from Late Latin exsiccatio, exsiccationis, from Latin exsicco: compare French exsiccation.
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Archaic The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
- This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks.1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
- Related terms
- exsiccant, exsiccate, desiccation