commolition
US/ˌkɑ.məˈlɪ.ʃən/
commolition noun: the act of grinding together.
Noun
commolition (uncountable)
- The act of grinding together.
- And whether these fragments of iron and hard substances swallowed by the Oestridge, have not also that use in their stomacks, which they have in other birds; that is, in some way to supply the use of teeth, by commolition, grinding and compression of their proper aliment, upon the action of the...1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Origin of commolition
From Latin commolitus, from Latin commolō (“to shake or grind thoroughly”).
Words that rhyme with commolition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
Questions about commolition
- What does commolition mean?
- Commolition means the act of grinding together.
- What part of speech is commolition?
- Commolition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce commolition?
- Commolition is pronounced /ˌkɑ.məˈlɪ.ʃən/ (US).
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