oppilation

Latin oppilatio: compare French opilation.

• IPA^(key): /ɒpɪˈleɪʃən/

oppilation (plural oppilations) (obsolete)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The act of crowding or filling together
2. a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
   • 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):

     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

   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon X. The Flesh and the Spirit. Part I.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 140:

     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 belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations.

   • 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     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,

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