assationn.
/aˈseɪʃən/ ? Obsolete.
Roasting or baking.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun]
annealing1399
firinga1550
assation1605
flammation1646
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. x. 40 Mercuriall spirites..do vanish away by their assation.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxvii. 151 In the assation or roasting, it [an egg] will sometimes abate a dragme.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Assation, in respect of culinary Matters, is more frequently call'd Roasting.
1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall xiii. 165 The malignant adhibition of fire, and all its diabolical processes of elixion and assation.
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- complacency
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- complacing
- complain
- complain of
- complainable
- complainant
- complainants
- complained
- complainee
- complainer
- complainers
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- complaining
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- complainingness
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- complaint
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