properation

English

Etymology

Latin properatio.

Noun

properation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) haste; hurrying.
   • a. 1652, Thomas Adams, The Fatal Banquet (sermon):

     There is great preparation of this banquet, properation to it, participation of it.

   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     Often handling of the withering Flowre […] is a properation of more swift decay.

References

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

Anagrams

• apportioner, reapportion