carbunculation

carbunculation noun: the blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.

Noun

carbunculation (usually uncountable, plural carbunculations)

(rare, usually) The blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.
- The disease known as sideration entirely depends upon the heavens; and hence we may class under this head, the ill effects produced by hail-storms, carbunculation, and the damage caused by hoar-frosts.1855, Pliny (the Elder.), translated by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History of Pliny - Volume 3, page 520
- Howsumdiver, I now mane to enjoy myself in the manetime, and do like the poor fellah when locked up head and shoulders in the carbunculation of dispair, drown my sorrows in a glass.1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie, page 172

[…] papulation, pustulation, carbunculation, vesiculation and bullous formation.1928, Missouri State Medical Association, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association - Volume 25, page 18:
Unseasonable frosts in the spring scorch the tender fruits, which bad effect of frost is usually expressed by carbunculation or blasting. -Joseph Caryl.2016, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Treasury of David:

plural	carbunculations

Latin carbunculatio.

What does carbunculation mean?: Carbunculation means the blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.
How do you use carbunculation in a sentence?: […] papulation, pustulation, carbunculation, vesiculation and bullous formation.
What part of speech is carbunculation?: Carbunculation is a noun.
What is the plural of carbunculation?: The plural of carbunculation is carbunculations.

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