litation

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English

Noun

litation (plural not attested)

  1. (rare, obsolete) sacrifice
    • 1849, Algernon Herbert, Cyclops Christianus; or an argument to disprove the supposed antiquity of the Stonehenge and other megalithic erections in England and Britanny:
      And his words do clearly not describe a return to their original paganism, without the name and semblance of Christianity, and a “perspicuous litation to the gods of the Gentiles."