Citations:effossion

English citations of effossion and effosion

1824, Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, page 14:
... effossion of coins, the procuring of mummies; and, for all those curious discoveries by which he hoped to become (as himself was wont to say) a second Peireskius.
1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Difform- Falter, page 404:
EFFOSSION, Lat. effodere, effossum, to dig out; e, and fodere, to dig; of unsettled etymology. The digging out. He [Cornelius Scriblerus] had already determined to set apart several annual sums, for the recovery of manuscripts, the effossion of coins, the procuring of mummies; ...

also spelled with one s:

1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 43:
I […] exsiccated its humid and aqueous surface by effosion.

1829, The London Encyclopaedia: Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical Mechanics, Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge, page 711:
... effosion of coins , and the procuring of mummies .
1920, United States. Bureau of Mines, Bulletin, page 241:
Effosion (L.). The digging out from the earth, as of fossils, etc.