grassation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin grassātiō (“rioting”), from grassāri.
Noun[edit]
grassation (countable and uncountable, plural grassations)
- (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[edit]
- “grassation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.