Meaning of averruncation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
   archaic, countable, rare, uncountable
2. Eradication, uprooting.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Quest[ion]. Whether averruncation of Epidemicall diseases, by Telesmes, be feisable and lawfull ? Answ[er]. [etc.]”

“BY Theurgick or Telestick Rites they conceived that they could procure a communication with the good Dæmons, and expulsion or averruncation of the bad.”

“[…] Pliny allows them [sc. mice] to have⟳ been always an ill omen, and therefore you should be advised to prepare⟳ against it either by averruncation or traps.”

“There are, we presume, different forms in different rituals; for in another that we heve seen, the bishop, while anointing and crossing the bell, prays God will send⟳ his Holy Spirit, that the bell may become⟳ sanctified for the repelling of all the power, snares, and illusions of the devil, for the souls of the dead, and especially for the averruncation of storms, thunder, and tempests!”

“[…] I believe⟳ / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve⟳ / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have⟳ enjoyed or put⟳ to use⟳.”

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