cicuration

English

Etymology

Compare French cicuration.

Noun

cicuration (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of taming.
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
      This holds not only in domestick and mansuete birds; for then it might be thought the effect of cicuration or institution, but also in the wild

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