plication (plikashon)

[ IMG:content-0432.png:[blocks in formation] Why the deuce should you not be sitting precisely opposite to me at this moment, thy juridical brow expand ing its plications, as a pun rose in your fancy? Scott, Red gauntlet, letter i. 3. In geol., a bending of the strata; a fold or folding. In Western Europe the prevalent lines along which terrestrial plications took place during Palæozoic time were certainly from S. W. or S.S. W. to N.E. or N.N.E. Geikie , Text-Book of Geol. (2d ed.), p. 270. plicative (plik'a-tiv), α. Same as plicate . [ plicate + -ive . ]