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madefaction Now rare or Obs.|mædɪˈfækʃən|
[a. F. madéfaction, ad. L. madefactiōn-em, n. of action f. madefacĕre: see madefy.]
A wetting; the action or process of making wet or moist.
1581E. Campion in Confer. 111. (1584) U iij, If it please God to take away the substance of water, and leaue the qualitie of madefaction, what hurt were it? 1626Bacon Sylva §865 To all Madefaction there is required an Imbibition. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 121 Such parts..are hurt with fluent madefactions.
humorously pedantic.1859Thackeray Virgin. lxxvii, Aunt Lambert (who was indulging in that madefaction of pocket-handkerchiefs which I have before described). |