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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