properation

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin properatio.

Noun

properation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of hastening; haste.
   • T. Adams

     There is great preparation of this banquet, properation to it, participation of it.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• apportioner, proprionate, reapportion