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Definition of Ablactation
1. Noun. The cessation of lactation.
2. Noun. The act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal.
Definition of Ablactation
1. n. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
Definition of Ablactation
1. Noun. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam. ¹
2. Noun. (horticulture) The process of grafting now called inarching, or "grafting by approach" ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ablactation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ablactation
Literary usage of Ablactation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Omniana; Or, Horae Otiosiores by Robert] [Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1812)
"ablactation... as our old Dictionaries call it. Old Beuther, in calculating the
number of years necessary for replenishing the world after the Deluge, ..."
2. An Historical and Practical Treatise on the Internal Use of the Hydro-cyanic by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1820)
"ALSO AFTER LONG SUCKLING, OR AT THE PERIOD OF ablactation. It is not my intention
to enter into a detail of all the arguments which have been brought ..."
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