adustion

Noun

adustion (countable and uncountable, plural adustions)

1. (obsolete) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
   • But if her death doe enſue thereupon, he shal render life for life, / eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote, / aduſtion for aduſtion, wound for wound, ſtripe for ſtripe.1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodus 21:23–25, page 222
   • it must be by aduſtion or putting it into a fame1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
2. (obsolete) Cauterization.
   • some use to apply this to the fat, but in our time it is all out of use, and seeing yet the pains of the hip do rather fall into the thighs, shins, and legs, then ascend up into the Arms and shoulders, Aetius and Cornarius say, that this adustion for the hips was used in the ancient time divers...1607, Edward Topsell, History of Four Footed Beasts
   • Albucasis adviseth that neither incision nor adustion is to be made in the Neck or Throat; because of the many Vessels, as Arteries, Nerves and Veins, there every where planted;1703, John Brown, The Surgeon's Assistant, page 88