mutuation

English

Etymology

From Latin mutuatio, from mutuare, mutuari (“to borrow”), from mutuus. See mutual.

Noun

mutuation (countable and uncountable, plural mutuations)

1. (obsolete) An act of borrowing or exchanging.
   • 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw:

     A sheep may teach thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see, and the proud will not own.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

   • 1876, The Eclectic Teacher and Kentucky School Journal:

     He referred to the mutuations of fortune, and how the members of society had an interest in this because the day might come when those rich now might be dependent upon this instrumentality for the education of their children.