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sideˈration Now rare.
Also 7–8 syd-.
[ad. L. sīderātio blast, blight, palsy, f. sīderārī: see prec. So F. sidération, † syderation (16th cent.).]
1. Blasting of trees or plants.
1623Cockeram ii. A iv b, A Blasting thereof, Stellation, Syderation. 1656Blount Glossogr., Syderation, Blasting of Trees with great heat and drought, Tree-plague. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. i. 383 If God hath ordained Sideration of Plants, or blasting of Fruits, must we accuse the Creation? 1691Ray Creation (1714) 304 Producing a Mortification or Syderation in the parts of Plants. 1721Bailey, Sideration, the Blasting of Trees or Plants, with an Eastern Wind or with excessive Heat and Drought. [Hence in Miller Gard. Dict. (1731).]
2. Sudden paralysis; complete mortification of any part of the body.
1612Cotta Disc. Dang. Pract. Phys. i. vii. 59 The sicke are also sodainly taken..with a senseless trance and generall astonishment or sideration. 1638A. Read Chirurg. iv. 27 An absolute coldnesse..causeth the sideration or death of the part. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 172 This hath been in them a Sideration, the Blasting of some unhappy Influence. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. vi. (1852) 575 Rabid animals, which, by a most unaccountable syderation from Heaven, had now neither strength nor sense left 'em to do anything for their own defence.
3. Path. (See quots.)
[1788Med. Comm. II. 182 Sideratio, or Erysipelas of the head and face. 1809Parr Med. Dict. II. 583 Sideratio,..a sphacelus or a species of erysipelas, vulgarly called a blast.] 1828–32in Webster (citing Parr). 1849Craig, Sideration, in Pathology, a name given to erysipelas of the face or scalp, from an idea of its being produced by the influence of the planets. |