grassation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin grassātiō (“rioting”), from grassāri.
Noun edit
grassation (countable and uncountable, plural grassations)
- (obsolete, rare) A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- If in Vice there be a perpetual Grassation, there must be in virtue a perpetual Vigilance
References edit
- “grassation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.