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inanition|ɪnəˈnɪʃən|
[ad. L. inānītiōn-em, n. of action f. inānīre: see inanite; cf. F. inanition (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The action or process of emptying; the condition of being empty; spec. the exhausted condition resulting from want or insufficiency of nourishment. Also fig.
c1400tr. Lanfranc's Cirurg. 100 Of þe whiche drawynge þat ben .ij. causis coniunct: þe toon is repleccioun of þe senewe oþere of þe corde, þe oþer is in-anisioun. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. iii. 17 Of inanition and repletion. 1615Crooke Body of Man 169 In the Dogge-appetite there is no Inanition or emptinesse of the parts, but an exquisite sense of suction. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 308 Fevers proceed from too great Fulness in the beginning and too great Inanition in the latter end of the Disease. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 252 Anarchy..is usually shortlived, and perishes of inanition. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 516 Inanition is a pathological condition entering into all diseases which interfere with the ingestion or the assimilation of aliment. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 123 Hunger and thirst are inanitions of the body. |