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"etymology_text": "From digitate + -ation.",
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"ref": "1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 64",
"text": "At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.",
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"Touching; manipulation with the fingers."
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"(obsolete) Touching; manipulation with the fingers."
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"Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues."
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"(zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues."
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