spiflication
nounEtymology See spiflicate.
- 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: