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imbibition|ɪmbɪˈbɪʃən|
[a. F. imbibition (14th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. L. *imbibitiōn-em, n. of action f. imbibĕre to imbibe.]
The action of imbibing (in the various senses of the vb.).
†1. Soaking or saturation with liquid, steeping or solution in liquid; combination of solid and liquid by this process; an instance of this; concr. a solution. to lie in imbibition, to lie a-soak or a-steep. Obs.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vi. xxviii. in Ashm. (1652) 168 Mo Imbybycyons many must we have yett. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 36 Water wherein good store of Cow dung hath lyen in imbibition. 1626Bacon Sylva §298 The Congruity of Bodies..if it be more, maketh a perfecter Imbibition, and Incorporation. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 64 They steep the seed..in..an imbibition of fair water and Sheep's dung. 1678R. R[ussell] Geber iii. ii. ii. vi. 185 Mixed with them by frequent Imbibitions, etc. continually grinding, imbibing, calcining and reducing.
2. Drinking in, sucking in, absorption; assimilation by absorption: usually of moisture or matter in solution, but sometimes of aeriform bodies or of solid particles by a liquid.
1601Holland Pliny II. 139 After this imbibition, when that the Frumenty hath thus drunk vp all the water. 1672Boyle in Phil. Trans. VII. 5159 A kind of Imbibition..of certain Particles of an Aereal Nature by the Water. 1770Watson Ibid. LX. 329 An imbibition of the particles of the several salts into the pores of the water. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 89 That their nutrition is by imbibition or immediate absorption. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 710 Imbibition is the term given..to the capacity of organised structures to absorb water between their molecules with such force that they are thus driven apart. Ibid. 711 When wood distends on imbibition or contracts on desiccation.
b. Drinking. (Affected use.)
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxix, The imbibition of a little..strong beer. 1896Allbutt Syst. Med. I. 485 The free imbibition of port.
3. The imbibing, ‘drinking in’, or absorption of knowledge, opinions, etc.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 50 The imbibition of good nourture in childhood. 1859Holland Gold F. xxv. 296 Every imbibition of truth. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. 352 If all one's truth is derived by imbibition from the Church. |
