cribration

== English == === Etymology === Compare French cribration, from Latin cribrare (“to sift”). See cribble (noun). === Noun === cribration (usually uncountable, plural cribrations) (obsolete) sifting, especially of the finer parts of drugs from the coarser parts. === References === “cribration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.