Meaning of oppilation | Babel Free
ɒpɪˈleɪʃənDefinitions
- The act of crowding or filling together
- a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
Examples
“these meagre, starved spirits, who have⟳ half stopt the organs of their minds with earthy oppilations, want⟳ not their favourers among your shrivell'd sallad-eating artizans”
“For he that refuseth the commandment [to be temperate], […] brings to himself a world of diseases and a healthless constitution; smart and sickly nights; a loathing stomach and a staring eye; a giddy brain and a swelled belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations.”
“And as he is who falls, and knows not how, By force⟳ of demons who to earth down drag⟳ him, Or other oppilation that binds man, When he arises and around him looks,”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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