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eradiation|ɪˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən|
Also 7 erradiation.
[f. prec.: see -ation.]
1. The action or process of eradiating or shining forth; the emission of rays of light or heat.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18 The first eradiation of this light, like some flash of lightning, breaks the stone in the heart. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xii. 331 Neither must we Imagine his Erradiation to be Idle. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 139 But, whether it comes directly from the sun, by successive emissions or eradiations, etc. 1865F. P. B. Martin MS. Lect. Geol., The attraction of the sun increases the Eradiation of the Earth.
b. transf. and fig.
a1630Hales Gold. Rem. (1673) I. 288 He first supposeth some eradiation and emanation of Spirit..to be directed from our bodies to the blood dropped from it. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 252 They will not understand what manner of making or production the world had—to wit, by way of effulgency or eradiation from the Deity.
2. concr.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 744 As if they were a kind of Eternal Effulgency, Emanation or Eradiation from an Eternal Sun. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 172 He is in his proportion..an Effulgency, an Eradiation of God's Glory. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) I. i. i. 51 All the rest acknowledged some Deity, some efflux, eradiation, emanation of the primal Godhead. |