| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EXANTLATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Etymology:Exantlation \Ex`ant*la"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression exantlation.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXANTLATION
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] The act of drawing out; exhaustion.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] (obsolete) The action of drawing something out, as though from a well. 1704: I do not doubt to lay open, by untwisting or unwinding, and either to draw up by exantlation, or display by incision. — Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 13). (references) | ||
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