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(archaic, rare) Regard; aspect; appearance. quotations
This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
(rare) The act of watching something; observation. quotations
the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner […]
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 34