dissilition

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪsɪˈlɪʃən/

Noun

dissilition (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of bursting, or breaking apart.
    • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
      the Dissilition of that Air was so great , that the small Viol seem'd to be full of Milk

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