humectation

Drink, my children; health consists in the suppleness and humectation of the parts: drink water in great abundance: it is an universal menstruum that dissolves all kinds of salt.

Clays by fire are deprived of their coherent quality, which cannot be restored to them by pulverization, nor by humectation.

Moisture -- N. moisture; moistness &c. adj.; humidity, humectation†; madefaction†, dew; serein†; marsh &c.