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madefaction

madefaction noun: the act of madefying, or making something wet.

Noun

madefaction (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of madefying, or making something wet.
    • 865. WATER being contiguous with air cooleth it but moisteneth it not except it vapour The cause is for that heat and cold have a virtual transition without communication of substance but moisture not and to all madefaction there is required an imbibition but where the bodies are of such several...1824, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, W Baynes and Son, London (1824), page 29

Origin of madefaction

Borrowed from Late Latin madefactiō, from madefaciō (“to make wet”). See madefy.

Questions about madefaction

What does madefaction mean?
Madefaction means the act of madefying, or making something wet.
What part of speech is madefaction?
Madefaction is a noun.

Words near madefaction in the dictionary

  1. Madecassee
  2. Madecassees
  3. madecassic
  4. madecassic acid
  5. madecassoside
  6. madefaction
  7. madefied
  8. madefies
  9. madefy
  10. madefying
  11. madeira

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