Definitions for rogation

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rogation ro·ga·tion

Spelling: [roh-gey-shuh n]

IPA: /roʊˈgeɪ ʃən/

Rogation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in rogation (aginoort).

Definitions for rogation

noun

1. Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
2. Roman History. the proposing by the consuls or tribunes of a law to be passed by the people. a law so proposed.

Origin of rogation

1350-1400; Middle English rogacio(u)n Latin rogātiōn- (stem of rogātiō), equivalent to rogāt(us) (past participle of rogāre to ask, beg) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for rogation

Without the psalms they are said on the feast of Saint Mark and on the three rogation days.

It was the first of the rogation days, which an Anglican may see, in his book of common-prayer, noted as days of abstinence.

To have no definite date conveyed by the term 'rogation Sunday' is to the clerical mind gross ignorance.