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Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

A making ready; provision. [Obs.]

sed token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.

Want of preparation. [Obs.] Hooker.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

e, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

e act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot.

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically:

Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowled…

Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. Bouvier. Burrill.

To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.