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n. 1 (context rare legal English) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift 2 (context obsolete medicine English) A dose
Usage examples of "dation".
The sight was one to brand the mind for cruel sorrow: the scout, chin raised, unwilling to show his graff captors one sign that degra dation and suffering touched his spirit.
There the Paravian stones cast down by Lysaer's builders lay jumbled as lichened bones, silted in rubble where the crumbled Second Age towers had been razed off the foun dations to make way for his grander design.
Filthy, beaten, driven to exhaustion, suffering every degraWAR OF THE MAELSTROM 151 dation, they hauled stuff, waited on their former workers, shoveled dung, dug field latrines, all the worst stuff, while others suffered the depths of public degradation and humilia tion for the amusement of the crowds.
Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapi dation proved it to have been well used, though not al together for a legitimate purpose.
I gave a few sentences of commen dation to Heathcliff, and he, either for a headache or a pang of envy, began to cry.