"efformation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: efformations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} efformation (countable and uncountable, plural efformations)
  1. (obsolete) The act of giving shape or form; formation. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-efformation-en-noun-Y~TuAUc1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68",
          "text": "[describing a horse] […] but as in an Egge for Example, about the third day the Hen has sate on it, in that part where Nature begins to set upon her work of efformation, all is turned into a Crystalline liquid substance about her […]"
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        "(obsolete) The act of giving shape or form; formation."
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