trutination

English

Etymology

From Latin trutinari (“to weigh”), from trutina (“a balance”). See trone (“a steelyard”).

Noun

trutination (countable and uncountable, plural trutinations)

1. (obsolete) The act of weighing.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     And we conceive men may mistake, if they distinguish not the sense of levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale, or decision of trutination

References

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