calcation

English

Etymology

From calcate (“to trample”) +‎ -ion (“forming abstract nouns”), from Latin calcatus (“trampled”), the past participle of calcāre (“to trample”) parsed via English -ate (“forming verbs”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Doublet of calque.

Noun

calcation (plural calcations)

1. (rare) Synonym of trampling, the act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
2. (rare) Synonym of kick, the act of kicking someone or something, an instance of kicking.
   • 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 12, page 342:

     Even a few supernumerary calcations would have been overlooked.

References

• “calcation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.