[f. LORICATE v.: see -ATION.] a. The action of loricating (see quots.). b. concr. A defensive covering or casing.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 314. Cones … with pretty broad thick scales … and the entire lorication smoother couched than those of the Fir-kind.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lorication, a fencing with a Coat of Mail, a harnessing; in Masonry, the filling of Walls with Morter; in Chymistry, the covering of a Vessel call’d a Retort with Loam or Clay, before it is set over a naked fire.
1741. trans. Cramer’s Art Assaying Met., 74. When the Vessels are exposed naked to the greatest Fire; it easily happens, that they burst…. For the preventing of which, you must have Recourse to Lorication or Coating.
