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cumulation|kjuːmjʊˈleɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. cumulāre: see cumulate.]
1. The action of heaping up or collecting in masses; an instance of such action; also, a gathered mass, a heap; accumulation, gathering. Chiefly fig.
1616Bullokar, Cumulation, a heaping up, or increasing. 1625Shirley Love-tricks iii. v, I..wish you all cumulations of prosperity. 1794Paley Evid. i. ii. i §4 This proof..is properly a cumulation of evidence, by no means a naked or solitary record. 1868Lowell Shakesp. Once More Prose Wks. 1890 III. 42 It is by suggestion, not cumulation, that profound impressions are made upon the imagination. 1892Contemp. Rev. May 711 This will depend..on the quality of the particles which form the cumulation.
†2. In English Univ. = accumulation 3. Obs.
1641Laud Hist. Chancellorsh. Oxf. 17 (T.) For cumulation, I must needs profess, I never liked it. And it supposes, of and in itself, an unnecessary delay of the first degree, or a needless haste of the second.
3. Civil Law. The combination or joining of two or more actions or defences in a single proceeding. Used in Louisiana, and formerly in Scotland.
1645State Trials, Sir Rob. Spotiswood (R.), The defender denies any such custom; but, by the contrary, defences have severally, and without cumulation, been proponed and discussed, as in Ochiltry's process. 1889in Cent. Dict. for Louisiana.
Add:[1.] b. spec. The process or result of cumulating lists of book titles or similar data; a cumulated list, index, catalogue, etc.
1900Cumulated Index to Bks. 1898–99 3 Before the publication of the Index of May 1898, which was a cumulation of sixteen months, the whole bibliography was thoroughly revised. 1918(title) Cumulative book index. 18th–20th annual cumulation. 1950(title) The music index 1949 annual cumulation. 1969R. L. Collison Indexes & Indexing ii. 128 If the periodicals index is..printed for circulation at frequent intervals, the original slips should be retained to enable cumulated..volumes to be compiled. They will of course require considerable editing for these cumulations. 1987Library Assoc. Rec. Jan. 17/3 A number of title entries appear under ‘A’ or ‘The’ instead of the first significant word of the title, presumably because the cumulation is computer generated and some entries do not contain a skipcount. |
