fluviation
nounEtymology From Latin fluviātiō, from fluviātus (“fluviated”) + -iō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from fluvius (“river”) + -ātus (“-ate: forming adjectives”) as if from a verb fluviō. Equivalent to fluviated + -ion.
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Obsolete, Usually Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
- This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54: