[n. of action f. ACUPUNCTURE.] The practice or process of acupuncture. lit. and fig.
1743. trans. Heister’s Surg., 313. The famous Operation of the Chinese and Japonese, termed Acupuncturation.
1821. Monthly Mag., LII. 448. Acupuncturation … consists in inserting a needle into the muscular parts of the body, to the depth, sometimes, of an inch.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. the Gt., I. I. iv. 34. Her Majesty … throws into him, as with invisible needle-points, an excellent dose of acupuncturation, on the subject of the Primitive Fathers.
