emication

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Uncountable

"Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with noise and emication, as also a crasse and fumide exhalation, which are caused from this combat of the sulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous spirits of Aqua fortis"

From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).

emications (plural)

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What does emication mean?

A spark, flickering or scintillation.

Where does emication come from?

From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).

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