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† confrication Obs.|kɒnfrɪˈkeɪʃən| [ad. L. confricātiōn-em, n. of action from confricāre: see prec. (So in mod.F.)] Rubbing together, friction.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 23 (MS. B.) Þat þe ende of þe bonys..scholde han a softere confricatioun in here junttes. 1594Mirr. Policy (1599) 199 Which by confrication moueth the appetite and desire. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 19 Confrications: for those vain Sophists mutually rubbed each other, like scabbed sheep. [1795–8in T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. xiii. 514 From the violent confrication of all which a raging fire was produced.] |