† vacuationn.
Obsolete.
1. A vacuity or hollow part.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow
hollowc897
wombOE
holkc1000
dalkc1325
hollownessc1374
spaciosity?a1425
pitc1480
concavitya1513
doupa1522
capacity?1541
cavity?1541
concave?1541
vacuation?1541
vacuity?1541
sound1603
cave1605
ferme1612
ventriclea1631
core1663
want1664
uterus1692
excavation1781
hog trough1807
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Dij v [Of bones] They that haue the embossynges and vacuacyons be they that make the ioyntes.
2. = evacuation n. 1a, 1b.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. xiv. 54 Through aboundant swetts, and all other immoderate vacuations.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 284 The vacuation of blood and seede, is a dubble charge to nature.
1635 A. Read Chirurg. Lect. Tumors & Vlcers 197 The vacuation of the humor impacted in the part.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. G3 Which distinction is taken from the manner of excretion or vacuation.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Vacuation, an emptying.
3. Emptiness. rare.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness
leernessc1000
vanitya1400
emptinessc1450
inanity1607
vacuation1611
blankness1850
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Vacuatione, emptinesse, vacuation, vacuity, voidnesse.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 103 They very joyfull handlinge the same [a trunk], found it promisinge noe vacuation, but verie heavy.
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