Meaning of carbunculation | Babel Free

Definitions

The blasting of something, by excessive heat or cold.

rare, uncountable, usually

Examples

“The disease known as sideration entirely depends upon the heavens; and hence we may class under this head, the ill effects produced by hail-storms, carbunculation, and the damage caused by hoar-frosts.”

“Howsumdiver, I now mane to enjoy myself in the manetime, and do like the poor fellah when locked up head and shoulders in the carbunculation of dispair, drown my sorrows in a glass.”

“Its hopes may be nipped in the bud by distortion, or halation, or abrasion, or reticulation, or electrification, or carbunculation, until it must be as unlikely that any negative should emerge perfect from the dark-room chrysalis as that a bomb should rop from a Zeppelin on to this page and dot its "i's" and cross its "t's."”

“[…] papulation, pustulation, carbunculation, vesiculation and bullous formation.”

“Unseasonable frosts in the spring scorch the tender fruits, which bad effect of frost is usually expressed by carbunculation or blasting. -Joseph Caryl.”

“The opening lines' dull roots have, as it were, been protected from carbunculation by the insulating snow, while the second stanza's questions land on carbunculine soil: 'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?'”

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