cicuration

English

Etymology

Compare French cicuration.

Noun

cicuration (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of taming.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     This holds not only in domestick and mansuete birds; for then it might be thought the effect of cicuration or institution, but also in the wild

Related terms

• cicurate

References

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

Anagrams

• cruciation