humectation

Etymology

 * compare.

Noun

 * 1) moistening.
 * 2) * 1649, Ambrose Parey, Thomas Johnson (trans.), The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 55, London: Richard Cotes and Willi Du-gard OCLC 13170477
 * The cure of such an effect must be performed by two means, that is, evacuation and cooling with humectation.
 * 1) * 1658, Sir Thomas Brown, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
 * That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
 * 1) * 1730, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 3, page 180, London: Impensis R. OCLC 13621903
 * It hath been observed by the ancients, that plates of metal, and especially of brass, applied presently to a blow, will keep it down from swelling. The cause is repercussion, without humectiation, or entrance of any body.

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