Obs. Also 7 estuation. [ad. L. æstuātiōn-em n. of action, f. æstuā-re to boil up.] Feverish disturbance, boiling up, ebullition.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. 74. Men in ambition … are in a perpetual Estuation to exalt their place.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 147. Depress the feverish æstuation of the Blood.
1684. T. Burnet, Theo. Earth, 118. The fires and æstuations of it [Ætna] are excellently describ’d by Virgil.
