osculation, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌɒskjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɑskjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology: < classical Latin ōsculātiōn-, ōsculātiō the action of kissing < ōsculāt-, past participle of ōsculārī osculate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French, French osculation (1509 in sense 1, 1750 in sense 2(b)).
1. The action of kissing; a kiss.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words, Osculation, a kissing or imbracing.
1663 W. Clark Marciano iii. iv. 37 He told me, that you would not permit osculation.
1715 tr. G. Pancirolli Hist. Mem. Things I. iv. iv. 164 This Ceremony of Osculation was esteem'd such an Honour.
1769 T. Smollett Adventures of Atom I. 38 The osculation itself was soft, warm, emollient, and comfortable.
1854 Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 220 If osculation is a mark of love, surely Mrs. Mack is the best of mothers.
1865 Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 779/1 Promiscuous osculation is the last thing he dreams of.
1945 Russ. Rev. 5 74 Kodaya, whose Japanese training included nothing remotely bearing on public osculation, bent over.
1991 M. Scott Nudists may be Encountered 108 If you were to approach one [sc. a frog], ever so cautious, lips pursed for the coming osculation, it would leap, trailing warty legs.
2. Close contact, an instance of this; spec. †(a) the mutual contact of blood vessels (obs.); (b) Geom. contact of curves or surfaces which share a common tangent at the point of contact (also used analogously of spaces of higher dimension).
1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chymica 130 The osculations of the vessels of the womb.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 45 These Osculations of the Lignous Body, and so the interception of the Insertions of the Cortical, are not to be observ'd by the traverse cut of the Root.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 16 Apr. 181/1 No Circles join in osculation sweet!
1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 116 Called the contact of osculation.
1838 Proc Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 37 Formation of ring or instant of osculation of limbs.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. ix. 202 Are there any points of osculation between the languages of these three great distinct families?
1906 Jrnl. Philos. 3 226 This blending or osculation seemed to effect the rise and subsidence of the intellectual presentations.
1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 294 259 Most interactions between platelets (and red cells) and walls..consist of transient osculations rather than adhesion.
2000 Federal News Service (Nexis) 28 Sept., By understanding climate prediction models, such as understanding the Arctic and trying to factor it into the equation of Atlantic and Pacific osculations,..we can begin to optimize agriculture.
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