imbibition
Example Sentences
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If it be summer, there should be a lump of ice in the crystal goblet; and the connoisseur will always hold it between him and the sunlight before imbibition, and ejaculate, "There's a picture!"
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
The formation of the elementary shapes of an organism is but a crystallization of substances capable of imbibition.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
I proceeded with the imbibition of Father McPhilpin's excellent tea.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
A division is sometimes made into Mandibulate and Haustellate groups, the oral apparatus of the former being adapted for mastication, the latter for imbibition of liquid food.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
He proposes to support the strength by placing the patient in a tepid bath of nutritious liquids, that might enter by cutaneous imbibition, but does not recommend this.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
