The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exsiccation
Exsiccation \Ex`sic*ca"tion\, n. [L. exsiccatio: cf. F.
exsiccation.]
The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of
moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
exsiccation
n. The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
Usage examples of "exsiccation".
Without entering into the discussion, it is certain that preservation of the corpse by a long and thorough process of exsiccation over a slow fire was nothing unusual, not only in Peru, Popoyan, the Carib countries, and Nicaragua, but among many of the tribes north of the Gulf of Mexico, as I have elsewhere shown.