What is "ablactation"

Ablactation \Ab`lac*ta"tion\ n.

1. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
   --Blount.

2. (Hort.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

n. 1 The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470).)(R:SOED5: page=5) 2 (context obsolete horticulture English) The process of grafting now called inarching, or "grafting by approach". (Attested from the late 17^th century until the early 19^th century.)

1. n. the cessation of lactation

2. the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal [syn: weaning]