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extrication|ɛkstrɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. extrīcāre: see prec. and -ation.]
1. The action of extricating or disentangling; disentanglement from an involved situation, from difficulty or perplexity.
1650B. Discolliminium 45, I shall be allowed the full benefit of all the..extrications..that I..can devise. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 62 ⁋3 Too..embarrassed to think much on any thing but the means of extrication. 1854Bright Sp. (1876) 275 A people whose extrication from ignorance and poverty can only be hoped for from the continuance of peace. 1854H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 27 Immense is the difficulty attending the clear extrication and expression of truth in intellectual philosophy. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxvii. 361, I owed my extrication..to a team-dog.
b. Escape from the egg; hatching.
1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 331 Young Turkies, after their Extrication from the shell, are very tender. 1866Owen Anat. Vertebrates I. xii. §119. 623 After extrication, the tadpole rapidly grows.
2. Chem. The action or process of setting free (an element, gas, etc.) from something containing it; = evolution 3. Now rare.
a1691Boyle Producibleness Spirits ii. iii, We may suppose it [acid spirit] to have been made rather by transmutation than extrication. 1790Keir in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 365 No extrication of gas appeared until [etc.]. 1800Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 144 Heat and vapour..accompanied..with an extrication of light. 1811Abernethy Surg. Wks. I. 39 The extrication of inflammable air. 1856W. A. Miller Elem. Chem. ii. ii. §286 Chemical action attended with extrication of light and heat. |