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† eˈxhausture Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ure.]
The action of exhausting; the state of being exhausted; also, an instance of this.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. (1632) 970 Yet was he the feebler..by reason of so fresh exhaustures. 1687N. Johnston Assur. Abbey Lands 54 Alledging the exhausture of the Exchequer by the late War. 1778Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 105/2 So great an exhausture of blood and treasure. Ibid., The state of debility and exhausture brought on by our civil contest. 1786Ibid. 174/1 Religious prejudices are..wearing away in France, and..it will not require a very long succession of years for their entire exhausture. |