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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

digitation

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

digitation ‎(plural digitations)

(obsolete) Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 64:
  At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.
(zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like process found in plant and animal tissues.