saginationn.
/sadʒɪˈneɪʃən/ rare.
The action of fattening animals for food.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fattening
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > fattening
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 81 After their labour which bringeth leannesse, they vse to put them [sc. oxen] by for sagination, or..for feeding.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Saginate, to fatten a beast. Sagination, the fattening thereof.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 12 There are very many persons whose intellect will not submit to this priestly sagination.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 484 We see the greedy porker before us in all the glories of sagination.
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