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The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

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.

A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [Obs.]

A wandering about. [Obs.] Jonhson.

A binding by oath. [R.] Abp. Bramhall.

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling. Bp. Hall.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.

The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. Sir J. Herschel.

The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with "By." Bp. Stillingfeet. Shipley.

state of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.

The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. "Deaf by an outward obturation." Bp. Hall.

Act of darkening or obscuring. [R.] Sir T. More.

The act of loading. [Obs.]

al, mechanical, or moral. The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach. Locke. Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection. Dryden.

discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

ng into, or comprehending, anything difficult. And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep. Milton. A penetration into the difficulties of algebra. Watts.

The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.