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† deliˈbation Obs.
[ad. L. dēlībātiōn-em, n. of action f. dēlībāre: see prec.]
1. A ‘taste’ or slight knowledge of something.
a1638Mede Disc. Acts xvii. 4 Wks. (1672) i. 19 Nor can it be understood without some delibation of Jewish Antiquity.
2. A portion taken away, culled, or extracted.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 216 Either..the substance of God Himself together with that of the Evil Demon, or else certain delibations from both..blended and confounded together. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xxi. 420 They considered the principle of motion and vegetation as delibations from the invisible fire of the universe. |