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vertebration|vɜːtɪˈbreɪʃən|
[f. vertebra.]
1. Vertebral formation; division into segments like those of the spinal column. Also in fig. context.
1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 179/2 Some writers have maintained that the vertebration of the Vertebrata may be understood as having reference to the segmentation of the muscles of the body-wall. 1889Theol. Monthly Jan. 48 His style rather resembles a cellular tissue..which may advance by growth on many sides, rather than a..compact logical vertebration.
2. fig. ‘Backbone’; strength or firmness.
1884W. G. Wills in Pall Mall G. 28 July 4/2 Poetry and rhetoric,..which have not the heart, life, and vertebration behind, are an impertinence and intrusion. 1892W. S. Lilly Gt. Enigma 313 Doctrine is the vertebration of religion. |