▪ I. † soˈlation1 Obs. rare.
[a. OF. solacion, solation, or ad. L. type *sōlātio, f. sōlārī to console.]
a. Rejoicing, joy. b. Consolation.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 436/3 In thys tyme of pasque our moder holy chyrche..maketh Solacyon for the resurrexyon of Jhesu cryste. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) i. 21 Now sithe I am thus..set in my solation, a biglie blisse here will I builde. 1757 E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 10 There are pleasures and solations indulged by Providence to every stage of life. |
▪ II. solation2 Physical Chem.
(sɒˈleɪʃən)
[f. sol n.6 + -ation.]
The change of a gel into a sol. So soˈlate v. intr., to undergo solation; trans., to convert into a sol.
| 1915 [see gelation2]. 1926 Jrnl. Morphol. & Physiol. XLI. 351 Locomotion in Amoeba is associated with gelation and solation. 1951 New Biol. X. 16 The plasmagel must presumably contract at the hind end, as well as solating. 1958 Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. LII. 270 The plasmagel system of the intact Amoeba undergoes complete solation under suitably high pressure. 1977 Jrnl. Cell Biol. LXXIV. 909/1 The gel solated slowly at room temperature after forming. Ibid. 921/1 Elevated KCl concentrations that solate the Dictyostelium gel. |