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limation Now rare.|laɪˈmeɪʃən|
[ad. late L. līmātiōn-em, used by Cælius Aurelianus, in sense ‘diminishing (of the body)’, n. of action f. līmāre: see prec.]
Filing; fig. ‘polishing up’.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 272 Limation proper to Metals..is a preparation with a file, whereby they yeeld dust for divers uses. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Limation..In Surgery, the filing of the Bones, or hard Parts of the Body. 1852S. R. Maitland Eight Ess. 197 Two years..during which the new commissioners were employed in the limation of the work [preparation of a book] committed to them.
†b. Astron. Correction of errors in calculation or observation. Obs.
1669Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 77 You know how much it may conduce to the limation of astronomy, and the correction of our canons, to have the celestial phænomena accurately observed. 1669― in Phil. Trans. IV. 1109 How the Motion of the Moon's Latitudes, which shall need its limations, is to be reform'd. |