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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Er/uc-tā'tion, n.

noun

n. [Lat. eructatio, Fr. éructation, Sp. eructacion, Pr. eructacio, It. eruttazione.]

  1. The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
  2. A violent bursting forth or ejection, as of wind or other matter from the earth.