Suffice it now to say that when the Teutons overcame Gaul, they became rulers over a population which had been subjected for five centuries to that slow but mighty process of Trituration which the Empire everywhere brought to bear upon local self-government.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske
He was the only person in or about the house; so with great reluctance, he left his studies, which were upon the recipe, in respect to which he was trying to make out the mode of concoction, which was told in such a mysterious way that he could not well tell either the quantity of the ingredients, the mode of Trituration, nor in what way their virtue was to be extracted and combined.
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When all movement had ceased, there were seen on the floor of the house, at the bottom of each rent, small heaps of fine brick-dust, evidently produced by Trituration.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell