sputation

English

Etymology

From Latin sputare (“to spit”), intensitive from spuere (“to spit”). Compare French sputation.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /spjuːˈteɪʃən/

Noun

sputation

  1. The act of spitting; expectoration.
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      ſurprized with a ſanguin ſputation upon a ſudden cohibition of their Hæmorrboids

References

sputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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