Oppilation

Quick meaning: Oppilation is a noun meaning a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.

Meaning

a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.

Example Sentences

And as he is who falls, and knows not how, By force of demons who to earth down drag him, Or other oppilation that binds man, When he arises and around him looks,

these meagre, starved spirits, who have half stopt the organs of their minds with earthy oppilations, want not their favourers among your shrivell'd sallad-eating artizans

For he that refuseth the commandment [to be temperate], […] brings to himself a world of diseases and a healthless constitution; smart and sickly nights; a loathing stomach and a staring eye; a giddy brain and a swelled belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations.

Word Forms

• oppilations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obstructions, appilation, constipation, crowding, congestion, clogging.

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