exsiccation

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin exsiccatio, exsiccationis, from Latin exsicco: compare French exsiccation. === Noun === exsiccation (countable and uncountable, plural exsiccations) (archaic) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971: That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay. ==== Related terms ==== exsiccant exsiccate desiccation === References === “exsiccation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.