Talk:hausture

This was a word in early English:

1955 January 15, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 325:
hausture. The action of sucking in. Latin haurire, haustum, to draw up, drink in; whence also, exhausted. Hence also (16th and 17th centuries) to haust, to draw in, drink up. A haust, a draught.

but the only cite I've spotted amid the scannos of exhausture is:

1862, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams, page 199:
It is a just matter of lamentation when souls which have been clad with zeal as with scarlet, constantly forward for the glory of God, fall to such apostasy as with Demas to embrace the dunghill of this world, and with an avarous hausture to lick up the mud of corruption.