arietation

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English

Etymology

Latin arietatio.

Noun

arietation (countable and uncountable, plural arietations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of butting like a ram; the use of a battering ram.
    • 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) The act of striking or conflicting.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; , London: E. C 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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