English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From Latin pistillum +‎ -ation.

Noun [ edit ]

pistillation (uncountable)

( obsolete ) The action of pounding with a pestle. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch. 5 [They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.

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