† spreadationn.
Obsolete.
1. A banquet, a lavish meal; = spread n. 14.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun]
farmeOE
feasta1200
gesteningc1200
mangerc1390
mangerya1400
junkerya1425
banquet1483
convive1483
gestonyea1500
junketa1500
festine1520
Maundy1533
junketing1577
entertainmenta1616
entertain1620
regalo1622
treatmenta1656
treat1659
regale1670
regality1672
festino1741
spreadation1780
spread1822
blowout1823
tuck-out1823
burst1849
1780 Edinb. Mag. 21 Dec. 337/1 Reserving these finished compounds of elegance and rhapsody for public Spreadations and Ton Festivals.
1801 Farther Excursions of Observant Pedestrian IV. 194 The men..counting the seconds destined to elapse before the grand spreadation greeted their longing appetites.
1810 Splendid Follies III. 26 They returned to the Bear, where they found a spreadation of sandwiches, fruit, jelly and cyder.
1884 J. Middlemass Poisoned Arrows III. xvii. 193 Have all that absurd spreadation taken away,..and a luncheon as like every day as possible, got ready at once.
2. The action of spreading over a larger area. rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun]
spreadinga1250
skeltingc1540
diffusion1585
prosemination1611
scatter1642
dissemination1646
radiation1658
dispersion1664
spread1757
distribution1860
dispersal1863
scatteration1892
spreadation1925
1925 Maryland Acad. Sci. Bull. July 14 Importations are now inspected by an act of Congress, and the danger to be most feared is internal spreadation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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