emication

From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).

emication (usually uncountable, plural emications)

1. (archaic) A spark, flickering or scintillation.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, Chapter V:

     Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with noise and emication, as also a crasse and fumide exhalation, which are caused from this combat of the sulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous spirits of Aqua fortis

• “emication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.