Title : Attempted coinage fails, as I discover "mactation" is an existing (though rare) word.
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Attempted coinage fails, as I discover "mactation" is an existing (though rare) word.
For some reason, we were discussing the topic of male lactation.Anyway, "mactation" is "The action of killing, esp. the slaughtering of a sacrificial victim" (OED). To go back to 1563: "The Lambe of God..of whose mactation Isayas fore prophecieth." And in the 20th century, there's T.S. Eliot: "If the mactations, immolations, oblations, impetrations, Are now observed."
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