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grassation

grassation noun: a wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.

Noun

grassation (countable and uncountable, plural grassations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
    • If in Vice there be a perpetual Grassation, there must be in virtue a perpetual Vigilance1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Forms of grassation

pluralgrassations

Origin of grassation

From Latin grassātiō (“rioting”), from grassāri.

Questions about grassation

What does grassation mean?
Grassation means a wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
What part of speech is grassation?
Grassation is a noun.
What is the plural of grassation?
The plural of grassation is grassations.

Words near grassation in the dictionary

  1. grass-skippers
  2. grass-tops
  3. grass-widowed
  4. grass-yellow
  5. grass-yellows
  6. grassation
  7. grassations
  8. grassatore
  9. grassatores
  10. grassbird
  11. grassbirds

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