oppilation
a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
Noun
- a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
- 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 - 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson,...
- 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...
- 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, - 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth...
Origin
Latin oppilatio: compare French opilation.