moration

English

Etymology

Latin moratio.

Noun

moration

1. (obsolete) A delay.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     we ſhall ballance the ſame with the concernment of it motion, and time of revolution, and ſay he is more powerful in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the Apogeum, for therein his moration is ſlower

References

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

Anagrams

• Romaniot, antiroom