excalceation
English
Etymology
From Latin excalceātus + -tion.
Noun
excalceation (uncountable)
- (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
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References
- excalceation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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