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Quotation dates: 1456
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Vapouracioun, n. [ME and e.m.E. vaporacion (Trevisa), vaporation (1528), L. vapōrātio.] The action of vaporizing; the production of vapour. — 1456 Hay II 118/21.
Quhen his body is dry and sclender … than is nedefull till him tendar metis of licht and sone degestioun, and delicious things and of sutil vapouracioun moystis
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