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percunctation

percunctation is the obsolete spelling of percontation.

Meaning of percontation

Noun

percontation (plural percontations)

  1. (formal, obsolete, rare) an enquiry
    • Percontation. An enquiry.[1623, H[enry] C[ockeram], “Percontation”, in The English Dictionarie: or, An Interpreter of Hard English VVords. […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Edmund Weauer, […], →OCLC, 1st part […]...
  2. (formal, obsolete, rare) A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”.
    • Percontation is a thing for which we cannot anſwer ſignificantly, as in Interrogation, yes: but as thus, he dwelleth in ſuch a place.[1656, Tho[mas] Stanley, “[Zeno.] Chap[ter] XVIII. Of Dicibles.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Second Volume, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring: […], →OCLC, 8th part...

Forms of percunctation

pluralpercunctations

Questions about percunctation

What is percunctation the obsolete spelling of?
Percunctation is the obsolete spelling of percontation.

Words near percunctation in the dictionary

  1. percrocutid
  2. percrocutids
  3. percs
  4. perculate
  5. percumbent
  6. percunctation
  7. percunctations
  8. percurrent
  9. percurrently
  10. percursory
  11. percuss

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