adunation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adūnātiō, from ad + ūnus (“one”).
Noun
[edit]adunation (plural adunations)
- (archaic) The act of uniting; union.
- 1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The Third Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, ad section XV (Considerations of Some Preparatory Accidents before the Entrance of Jesus into His Passion), discourse XX (Of Death, and the Due Manner of Preparation to It), page 397:
- [W]e are taught, that all the body of holy actions and miniſteries are to unite in production of the event, and that without that adunation one thing alone cannot operate: [...]
References
[edit]- “adunation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.