exestuation

Latin exaestuatio.

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡˌzɛstjuˈeɪʃən/, /ɛɡˌzɛst͡ʃuˈeɪʃən/

exestuation (usually uncountable, plural exestuations)

1. (obsolete) A boiling up or effervescence.
   • 1695, Lucretius, translated by Thomas Creech, Of the Nature of Things:

     The exestuation of the Waters of the Sea

• exestuate

• “exestuation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.