morigeration
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin morigeratio.
Noun
editmorigeration (usually uncountable, plural morigerations)
- (obsolete) obsequiousness; obedience
- September 3 1659, John Evelyn, letter to Robert Boyle
- that fond morigeration to the mistaken customs of the age
- September 3 1659, John Evelyn, letter to Robert Boyle
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “morigeration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)