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noun

Ebullition n.

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. (Formerly written bullition)

A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.

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Etymology of 'Ebullition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... obliquity to be expected in such a case. This was not like Millard, and though his exterior was calm and suave enough from mere force of habit, she quickly formed an opinion of his condition of internal ebullition from his precipitancy. ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... But this ebullition of feeling is childish and even sinful. We must take our poets as we do our meals—as they are served up to us. Indeed, you may, if full of courage, give a cook notice, but not the time-spirit who makes our poets. We may be sure—to appropriate an idea of the late Sir James Stephen—that ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... that, when anything in the shape of a novel was required, I was bound to produce it. Nothing can be more distasteful to me than to have to give a relish of Christmas to what I write. I feel the humbug implied by the nature of the order. A Christmas story, in the proper sense, should be the ebullition of some mind anxious to instil others with a desire for Christmas religious thought, or Christmas festivities,—or, better still, with Christmas charity. Such was the case with Dickens when he wrote his two ...

— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope

... do with all classes of society, for if it presides over the banquets of assembled kings, it calculates the number of minutes of ebullition which ...

— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin

... often seen a child receive, within an hour or two of the first whipping, a second one, for some small ebullition of nervous irritability, which was simply inevitable from its ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

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