† exustionn.
Obsolete.
a. The action or process of burning or burning up (something).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun]
bruneOE
brandOE
burninga1300
ustion1567
exustion1583
combustiona1600
combusture1609
inustion?1630
ustulation1658
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xiii. 233 You must vse some hote burning instrument...After exustion, minister the iuyce of leeks, and other such thinges, which do drie.
1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 353 The generall exustion and burning of the world.
1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 424 The frightful Effects which this Exustion [of Sodom and Gomorrah] left are still remaining.
b. Heat attendant upon disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun]
heatc1000
fireOE
burning1382
phlegmona1398
disdainc1400
angerc1440
scaldingc1450
brounes1528
inflaming1530
combustion?1541
inflammation1541
incension1598
fieriness1600
angriness1612
exustion1657
phlogosis1666
phlegmasia1706
scald1882
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Tttt4v It allayes the inflammations, exustions, and hot distempers.
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