exaration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exarātiō.

Noun

exaration (countable and uncountable, plural exarations)

  1. (obsolete, agriculture) The act of ploughing.
  2. (rare) The act of writing.
  3. (rare) A piece of writing.
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References
  1. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/exaration
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exaration
  3. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/exaration

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exaration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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