tumultuation

English

Etymology

From Latin tumultuatio.

Noun

tumultuation (plural tumultuations)

  1. (obsolete) tumult; commotion.
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] A Physico-chymical Essay, Containing an Experiment with Some Considerations Touching the Differing Parts and Redintegration of Salt-petre. Section XIV.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC, page 138:
      [T]hat in the ſound obſervable in our Experiment, the contiguous air receives many ſtrokes from the particles of the Liquor, ſeems probable, by the ſudden and eager tumultuation of the parts of the Liquors: […]

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