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Pronunciation : Col`li*qua"tion
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

2. (Med.)

Defn: A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913