different between digitation vs indigitation

English

Etymology

From digitate +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?d???te???n/

Noun

digitation (countable and uncountable, plural digitations)

1. (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.

2. (zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues.

Anagrams

• goniatitid

English

Etymology

From indigitate +? -ion.

Noun

indigitation (countable and uncountable, plural indigitations)

1. The act of pointing out with or as if with the finger; indication.
2. The interlocking of fibers at the junction of muscle and tendon or aponeurosis; digitation; invagination.

References

• indigitation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.