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Quotation dates: 1420, 1533, 1588-1598
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Rogatio(u)n, n. Also: rogac- and -iown, -yown. [ME and e.m.E. rogacioun (usu. pl.) (1387) (also, with reference to ancient Rome, a1450), OF rogacion (c1355 in Larousse; in eccl. use also rogationes pl.), L. rogātiōn-, f. rogāre to ask.] a. pl. The Rogation days, or the processions associated with these days. b. Of tribunes in ancient Rome: The submitting of a proposed law to the people for their acceptance. c. A formal request. —a. c1420 Wynt. v 4394.
The byschope Mamert of Vyen … gert be … haldyne the processyowne Before the Ascensiowne That now mony natyownys Callys the Rogatyownys [C. -aciownys, W. -acionis] 1533 Boece 297b.
The generall processiouns callit the rogaciouns 1588 King Catechism a 5 (see Gandokis n. pl.). —b. 1533 Bell. Livy II 21/11.
Be this law was gevin ane scharp brod to the rogatioun of tribunis —c. 1598 James VI Minor Prose 71/18.
In the parliament … the lawes are but craued by his subjects, and onely made by him at their rogation
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