spiflication

noun

spiflication

noun

Etymology See spiflicate.

1

Obsolete, Rare The act of spiflicating, or the state of being spiflicated; annihilation.

  • Whose blood he vowed to drink — the Oriental form of threatening spiflication1855, Richard Francis Burton, Pilgrimmage to El-Medinah and Mecca:
  • ... you had better not mention — to quote Johnson — of Benson's spiflication1859, George Meredith, chapter 11, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel:

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