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From Middle English radicacyon, from Medieval Latin rādīcātio.

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radication (usually uncountable, plural radications)

  1. The process of taking root, or state of being rooted.
    Synonym: settlement
    the radication of habits
    • 1917, Fathers of the English Dominican Province (translation), Thomas Aquinas (original), Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 24:
      So that an essential increase of charity means nothing else but that it is yet more in its subject, which implies a greater radication in its subject.
  2. (botany) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
    radication of plants
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. []. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, [] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, [], London: [] Hen[ry] Brome [], →OCLC, pages 161–162:
      They had a due diffuſion of their roots on all or both ſides, vvhereby they maintained ſome proportion to their height, in Trees of large radication.
    • 1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98:
      I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from
  3. (arithmetic, rare) The process of extracting a number's root.

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radication f (plural radications)

  1. radication