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emication

emication noun: a spark, flickering or scintillation.

Noun

emication (usually uncountable, plural emications)

  1. (archaic, usually) A spark, flickering or scintillation.
    • 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 fortis1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, Chapter V

Forms of emication

pluralemications

Origin of emication

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

Questions about emication

What does emication mean?
Emication means a spark, flickering or scintillation.
What part of speech is emication?
Emication is a noun.
What is the plural of emication?
The plural of emication is emications.

Words near emication in the dictionary

  1. Emhoffs
  2. EMI
  3. emic
  4. emically
  5. emicant
  6. emication
  7. emications
  8. emicin
  9. emicity
  10. emicizumab
  11. emicness

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