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Digitation

Digitation \Dig`i*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. digitation.] A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

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digitation

n. 1 (context obsolete English) touching; manipulation with the fingers. 2 (context zoology botany English) Any of various finger-like process found in plant and animal tissues.

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At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, where the smallness of the theatre did not yet afford room enough for action, and where the pain my fingers gave me, in striving for admission, tho' they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy till I had communicated to Phoebe, and received her explanations upon it.