grassation

English

Etymology

From Latin grassātiō (“rioting”), from grassāri.

Noun

grassation (countable and uncountable, plural grassations)

1. (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

• “grassation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• organistas