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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Umm... "ablution"?
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I understand the supposed root, but can't find it as an accepted derivation in my OED or elsewhere. So Gilbert may have coined the word, but it doesn't seem to have gone beyond that. ... I'm not really trying to be picky, just making the observation.
ETA: What Gilbert really needed was someone to try and sue him for using it. It worked to get supercalifragilistic into the OED along with quotations from the court case.