amplexation

== English == === Etymology === From Latin amplexāt-, past participial stem of amplexor (“to embrace”), +‎ -ion. === Noun === amplexation (obsolete, rare) An embrace. 1637, Sermons preached by that reverend and learned divine Richard Clerke [...] published for the common good, by Charles White (printed in London by T. Cotes): Truth oft hath approbation, without Amplexation; beleeved, but not embrac't of many. […] And I will not say, Saint Paul meant not so; though I will not say, he did. The true Amplexation, is the due Application of the saying to our selves, as Saint Paul doth […] (biology, dated, uncommon) The act of (forming the grip of) amplexus. Synonym: amplection / amplexion (dated, uncommon) 1898, Theo. Gill, The tailless Batrachians of Europe, in Science, page 936: Amplexation of 'Pelodytes punctatus' […] Nevertheless, within certain limits, the species of a genus agree in their mode of amplexation; only a too strict taxonomy cannot be applied. ==== Related terms ==== === References === “amplexation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.