prensation

English

Etymology

From Latin prensatio, from prensare, prehensare, verb frequentative from prehendere (“to seize”).

Noun

prensation (countable and uncountable, plural prensations)

1. (obsolete) The act of seizing with violence; seizure
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 149:

     [B]y ambitious prenſations, by Simoniacal corruptions, by political bandyings, by popular factions, by all kinds of ſiniſter vvays, men crept into the place, doth appear by thoſe many diſmal Schiſms, […]

References

• “prensation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pontresina, nanostripe, Reptonians, near points, nonparties, non-parties, antiperson, antipreons