humectation

== English == === Etymology === Latin humectatio: compare French humectation. === Noun === humectation (countable and uncountable, plural humectations) moistening. 1649, Ambrose Parey, Thomas Johnson (trans.), The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 55, London: Richard Cotes and Willi Du-gard OCLC 13170477 The cure of such an effect must be performed by two means, that is, evacuation and cooling with humectation. 1658, Sir Thomas Brown, 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. 1730, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 3, page 180, London: Impensis R. OCLC 13621903 It hath been observed by the ancients, that plates of metal, and especially of brass, applied presently to a blow, will keep it down from swelling. The cause is repercussion, without humectiation, or entrance of any body. ==== Translations ==== === References === “humectation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.