What does oppilation mean?
Oppilation means a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..
Oppilation
/ɒpɪˈleɪʃən/ · noun
Meaning
a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..
Example Sentences
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.
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,
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Word Forms
- oppilations
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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
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