omination

English

Etymology

Latin ominatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒmɪˈneɪʃən/

Noun

omination (plural ominations)

1. (obsolete) The act of ominating; presaging; to omen.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     An oath, in case they were forsworn, draweth a curse on them, a detestable omination towards the priests of God.

     The spelling has been modernized.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “omination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)