(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:59:00

Av`er*run*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. OF. averroncation.]

1.

The act of averting.

[Obs.]

2.

Eradication.

[R.]

De Quincey.

 

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