excalceation

English

Etymology

From Latin excalceātus + -tion.

Noun

excalceation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The removal of the shoes.
    • 1715, Hugo Grotius, John Morrice, Of the Rights of War and Peace:
      the very Law of Excalceation (the pulling off the Shooe) […] had something of Dishonour in it

References
  • excalceation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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