rare. [n. of action f. ACUATE v. See -ATION.] Sharpening, rendering acute.

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1837.  Whewell, Induct. Sc., III. XV. i. 197. Werner … had formally spoken of truncation, acuation, and acumination, or replacement by a plane, an edge, a point respectively, as ways in which the forms of crystals are modified.

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