The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffumigation \Suf*fu`mi*ga"tion\, n. [L. suffumigatio: cf. F. suffumigation.] The operation of suffumigating.
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n. (context archaic English) The burning of substances to produce fumes as part of some magical rituals.
Usage examples of "suffumigation".
Not farre of, there was a cleft in the earth, the which continually did cast foorth burning matter, and taking of this, and filling the bottome of the vessel, they did put certaine ginnes and sweet woods which made an inestimable suffumigation, as of the sweetest past, afterwardes closing the same, and putting downe the couer, both partes being holow, and the lipping and ribbing perforated and pearced through the transparent, Christal cleare and bright, they rendered a pleasant and diuers coulered light, by the which through the smal holes the bathes were lightened, and the heate stil incarcerated and interdicted.
Digby, and forgotten a suffumigation, the spirit, enraged, snatched him out from his circle, and carried him from his house in the Minories into a field near Battersea.
I will come and do the suffumigations myself that you may learn how it is done.
Then I need not recount all the tedious details of the pentacle, the suffumigations, the chants, the gestures, and so forth.
On the other hand, vapours exhaled from certain suffumigations induce spirits to appear.
I will come and do the suffumigations myself that you may learn how it is done.
I will not only take care that you have all the requisites, but as a proof of my zeal for you, I will come and do the suffumigations myself that you may learn how it is done.