inteneration

English

Noun

inteneration (usually uncountable, plural intenerations)

  1. A softening.
    • 1858, Francis Bacon; James Spedding; et al, transl., Instauratio Magna:
      all things with us tend to rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation and inteneration, except by mixtures and methods that may be called spurious.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inteneration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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