properation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
properation (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) haste; hurrying.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, The Fatal Banquet (sermon):
- There is great preparation of this banquet, properation to it, participation of it.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- Often handling of the withering Flowre […] is a properation of more swift decay.
References[edit]
- “properation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.