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The act of praying; supplication; entreaty. Cotton.

A dedication made previously or beforehand.

The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion. Locke.

The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.

The act of signifying or showing beforehand.

iation from the truth and fair dealing. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

The generation of young.

That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. Paley.

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

nything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.

Putrefaction.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke.

Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits.

A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.

See Rarefaction. [R.] Am. Chem. Journal.

The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.