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arietations

arietations is the plural of arietation.

Meaning of arietation

Noun

arietation (countable and uncountable, plural arietations)

  1. (obsolete) The use of a battering ram, or similar.
    • the strength of the percussion , wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all arietations and ancient inventions1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) The act of striking, attacking or conflicting.
    • tumultuary motions, cross thwartings, and arietations of other particles, especially when for one way of hitting right, there are thousands of missing1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC

Questions about arietations

What is arietations the plural of?
Arietations is the plural of arietation.

Words near arietations in the dictionary

  1. arienzo
  2. arienzos
  3. Aries
  4. Arieses
  5. arietation
  6. arietations
  7. Arietian
  8. Arietians
  9. Arietid
  10. Arietids
  11. arietiform

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