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Aration

Aration \A*ra"tion\, n. [L. aratio, fr. arare to plow.] Plowing; tillage. [R.]

Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage.
--Brande.

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n. (context obsolete English) ploughing, tillage

Usage examples of "aration".

Hugh Steeply did need the humiliations of his absurd field-personae, that the more grotesque or unconvincing he seemed likely to be as a disguised persona the more nourished and actualized his deep parts felt in the course of preparation for the humiliating attempt to portray.

Suddenly she didn't care that last night had reopened old wounds, intensifying the pain she felt over the separation.

Couldn't Ryan see Joy had no choice but to put Elayne and Christy first, even if her continued sep aration from him was tearing her apart?

We had been married less than a year, and this was to be our longest separation, but I agreed to her plan.

No, when I told Alfred Fish I had a job to perform, I meant only that I had decided to dedicate myself to combating deviltry wherever it might arise, as a kind of preparation for what Moriarty would do.

I realized that within me was the capacity to become another Moriarty, and I had experienced quite enough of the egotistic exhilaration which my ability to sway an audience gave me.

The clicks of his portable clock were really composed of three smaller clicks, signifying he supposed preparation, movement, and readjustment.

Milli-cent Kent's coiffure looked like a missile protruding from its silo in preparation for launch.

Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.

It was such a simple obversion of my normal goods-delivery-preparation system that it hadn't once occurred to me, Lyle explained.

The proud and haughty Québecois had been harassing and even terrorizing the rest of Canada over the Separation issue for time out of mind.

South, plus Penn's arational lobbing at an Israel that at the summit was explicitly placed under AMNAT's mutual-defense umbrella, has used these as golden tactical geese, racking up serious INDDIR-points against a SOUTHAF and INDPAK whose hasty defensive alliance and shaky aim produce nothing more than a lot of irradiated cod off Gloucester.

It was partly a matter of plain old taste: ad-critics argued that the NoCoat spots were equivalent to like Preparation H filming a procto-exam, or a Depend Adult Undergarment camera panning for floor-puddles at a church social.

Steeply's preparations for his returning field-assignment had been disciplined and effective.

Neither Wheeler nor Jamieson was a sufficiently good cook to enjoy the preparation of meals and this, after all, was a holiday.