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laxation|lækˈseɪʃən|
[ad. L. laxātiōn-em, n. of action f. laxāre: see lax v. and -ation.]
The action of loosening or relaxing; the state of being loosened or relaxed; occas. an instance or means of relaxing, a laxative application.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxvii. (1495) 337 Hote water is contrary to laxacion yf the heete of the ayre is not stronge for the tyme also. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) K iv, Beanes sodde in Veniger..do greatlye withold Laxation. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. i. xxiv. 33 a, These are the prouocations of leacherie, these are the laxations of libertie. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions v. 34 That Law, without execution whereof there cannot but follow a laxation of the whole frame [of Nature]. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 420 The hernia,..it's cured by laxation. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 127 By reason of the laxation and flagging of the membranes. 1699T. Bennet Dissenters' Pleas. (1711) 5 By reason of..laxation of disciplin in those wars, Atheism has much increas'd. 1832I. Taylor Saturday Even. 26 The movement—the laxation of the human mind in all countries. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 252 An initial mercurial purge, followed by milder saline laxations..will afford some amelioration. |