disturbation

English

Etymology

Latin disturbatio.

Noun

disturbation (countable and uncountable, plural disturbations)

1. (obsolete) disturbance
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     All future disturbations would desist;
     The roote cut off, from whence these tumults rose

References

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

Anagrams

• subtradition