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Siccation   Listen
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Siccation  n.  The act or process of drying. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... differing in the composition used by different people for preserving their dead, are the Egyptian, Arabian, Pisasphaltos, and Lybian. The fifth mummy of peculiar power was made from criminals that had been hanged; "for from such there is a gentle siccation, that expungeth the watery humour, without destroying the oil and spirituall, which is cherished by the heavenly luminaries, and strengthened continually by the affluence and impulses of the celestial spirits; whence ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay



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