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screatio

screatio [CL screare+-tio] 1 (act of) clearing the throat and discharging spittle or phlegm, spitting. non ultra mensam sit facta screatio D. Bec. 1051; emoptoys est ejectio sanguinis et fit per sputum vel ~onem Gilb. IV 194v. 1; corpus domini injuriose masticans, porciunculam importuna ~one rejecit, nausea ac spuma horribili sequente (Goderannus) NLA II 26. 2 spittle, phlegm. tussis stringatur, sputum [gl.: screatio] ‥ tegatur Garl. Mor. Scol. 42 gl.; nunc Jhesum oblinit feda screacio / ‥ nunc Jhesus perlitus est sputis vilibus Walt. Wimb. Carm. 513; minister focarius continue circulo quindecim dierum ~ones subtus et prope formas mundabit et fenum competens ‥ curabit jacere Chr. Abingd. II 384.

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