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subfumigation

subfumigation is the alternative form of suffumigation.

Meaning of suffumigation

Noun

suffumigation (countable and uncountable, plural suffumigations)

  1. The burning of substances to produce fumes as part of some magical rituals.
    • Now I will make dis avail me at de change of every quarter-moon dat I shall find by the same proportions of expenses I lay out in de suffumigations, as nine, to de product of nine multiplied unto itself.1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 208
    Synonyms:
    smudging

Forms of subfumigation

pluralsubfumigations

Questions about subfumigation

What is subfumigation the alternative form of?
Subfumigation is the alternative form of suffumigation.

Words near subfumigation in the dictionary

  1. subfreshmen
  2. subfrontal
  3. subfulgent
  4. subfulminant
  5. subfulvous
  6. subfumigation
  7. subfumigations
  8. subfumose
  9. subfunction
  10. subfunctional
  11. subfunctionalisation

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