arietation

English

Etymology

Latin arietatio.

Noun

arietation (countable and uncountable, plural arietations)

  1. (obsolete) The use of a battering ram, or similar.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      the strength of the percussion , wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all arietations and ancient inventions
  2. (obsolete, figurative) The act of striking, attacking or conflicting.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
      tumultuary motions, cross thwartings, and arietations of other particles, especially when for one way of hitting right, there are thousands of missing

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