adrogations
adrogations is the plural of adrogation.
Meaning of adrogation
Noun
adrogation (countable and uncountable, plural adrogations)
- A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome.
- There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilitia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption, or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges...1848, G[eorge] L[ong], “GENS”, in William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd improved and enlarged edition, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street; and Ivy...
Questions about adrogations
- What is adrogations the plural of?
- Adrogations is the plural of adrogation.
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