excalceation

English

Etymology

From Latin excalceātus + -tion.

Noun

excalceation (uncountable)

(obsolete) The removal of the shoes.
- 1715, Hugo Grotius, John Morrice, Of the Rights of War and Peace:
  the very Law of Excalceation (the pulling off the Shooe) […] had something of Dishonour in it

References

“excalceation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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