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countable and uncountable, plural exsiccations
The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture. quotations examples
That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks.
1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX