crispation

English

Noun

crispation (plural crispations)

1. (archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
2. (archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle.

   crispation of the muscles

   crispation of the stomach

   • 1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:

     Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     THE NYMPH: (Loftily.) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light. (She arches her body in lascivious crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth.).

References

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

Anagrams

• antipsoric, apicortins, ascription

French

Etymology

From crisper +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁis.pa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

crispation f (plural crispations)

1. twitch
2. tension

Further reading

• “crispation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.