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despuˈmation
[ad. L. dēspūmātiōn-em, n. of action from dēspūmāre: see prec. In F. despumation (1616 in Hatzf.).]
1. The removal of froth or scum from a liquid; the condition of being freed from scum; clarification.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 270 Despumation is when spume or froth floating on the top, is taken away with a spoon, feather, or by colation. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 215 Honey..boil'd to a perfect Despumation. 1883in Syd. Soc. Lex.
2. The expulsion of impure matter from the fluids of the body; the matter thus despumated.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 164 By..Despumation I would have nothing else understood, than the Expulsion or Separation of the febrile matter now brought under and as it were conquered. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. §8 (1734) 164 The..Glands become loaded with the Despumation of the whole Habit. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi, The fluids of the body appear to possess a power of separating and expelling any noxious substance which may have mixed itself with them. This they do, in eruptive fevers, by a kind of despumation, as Sydenham calls it. 1802Beddoes Hygeia viii. 158.
3. pl. Skimmings, scum, froth, foam.
1669Addr. Yng. Gentry Eng. 51 Here you see another Cytherea born out of the despumations of our seas of wine. |