spargefaction

English

Etymology

From Latin spargere (“to strew”) + facere, factum (“to make”).

Noun

spargefaction (usually uncountable, plural spargefactions)

1. (obsolete) The act of sprinkling.
   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section 4”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:

     The operation was performed by spargefaction in a proper time with of the moon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spargefaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)