† nodationn.

Forms: late Middle English nodacion, 1500s–1600s nodation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin nōdātiōn-, nōdātiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin nōdātiōn-, nōdātiō knotty structure, in post-classical Latin specifically a lumpiness of flesh (a1350 in a British medical text) < nōdāt- , past participial stem of nōdāre (see node v.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French nodation a lumpiness of flesh (15th cent.).

Obsolete. rare.

1. A knotted part, a knotty formation; spec. a lumpiness of flesh. Cf. nodosity n. 1.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > state of having bumps or lumps > state of having knobs or knots

nodation?a1425

knottiness1607

knobbiness1611

nodosity1611

nodation1623

knobbliness1899

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 116 To declare what ar nodacions [?c1425 Paris knottynesses; L. nodationes] comyng in þe flesh wiþ ycchyng when a man is ouerchaufed or hote & in swetyng he cloweþ hym selfe, I ouersitte or ouerpasse.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 2 b/2 The nodation of the gorge or throte, or Adam's bitte.

2. Knottiness. Cf. nodosity n. 2.

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