nonce-wd. [f. as prec.: see -FICATION.] A twisting; a twisted object or part.
1825. Examiner, 6 Nov., 4/1. As far as limb-work and personal twistification are concerned, M. Mazurier may use the same exclamation in regard to his ligneous competitor.
1835. Beckford, Recoll., 137. To entertain any doubts of the supreme excellence of Don Emanuel’s scollops and twistifications amounted to heresy.
1841. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1883), 230. Dry jokes, the humor of which is so incorporated with the strange twistifications of his physiognomy, that [etc.].
