oppilation
/ɒpɪˈleɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction in organs, particularly in the lower intestines.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "If you vse to drinke the iuyce of Chiccorie, it openeth the oppilation of the liuer and milt caused of heate."
- "these meagre, starved spirits, who have half stopt the organs of their minds with earthy oppilations, want not their favourers among your shrivell'd sallad-eating artizans"
- "For he that refuseth the commandment [to be temperate], […] brings to himself a world of diseases and a healthless constitution; smart and sickly nights; a loathing stomach and a staring eye; a giddy brain and a swelled belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations."
- "And as he is who falls, and knows not how, By force of demons who to earth down drag him, Or other oppilation that binds man, When he arises and around him looks,"
Etymology
Latin oppilatio: compare French opilation.