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3,174 words match “RATION”

MELIORATION n.
The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.
MENSURATION n. 3 definitions
The act, process, or art, of measuring.
MIGRATION n.
The act of migrating.
MINISTRATION n.
The act of ministering; service; ministry. "The days of his ministration." Luke i. 23.
MINORATION n.
A diminution. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
MISCONSECRATION n.
Wrong consecration.
MISERATION n.
Commiseration. [Obs.]
MODERATION n. 4 definitions
The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Pope.
MONSTRATION n.
The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.] A certain monstration. Grafton.
MORATION n.
A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
MORIGERATION n.
Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.
MUNERATION n.
Remuneration. [Obs.]
MURMURATION n.
The act of murmuring; a murmur. [Obs.] Skelton.
NARRATION n. 3 definitions
The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
NEURATION n.
The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation.
NONPREPARATION n.
Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
NUMERATION n. 2 definitions
The act or art of numbering. Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. Locke.
OBDURATION n.
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [Obs.]
OBERRATION n.
A wandering about. [Obs.] Jonhson.
OBJURATION n.
A binding by oath. [R.] Abp. Bramhall.
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