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Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling. [Obs.] Common nundination of pardons. Abp. Bramhall.

The pronunciation of n at the end of words.

upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.

Obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of ominating; presaging. [Obs.] Fuller.

The act of thinking; a supposition. [Obs.]

Opposition. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A catering; a buying of provisions. [Obs.] Bailey.

ing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. The holy and wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok.

The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.

The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.

The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

The act of patrocinating or patronizing. [Obs.] "Patrocinations of treason." Bp. Hall.

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated. Sir T. Browne.

eling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.