obsignation

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English

Etymology

Latin obsignatio.

Noun

obsignation (countable and uncountable, plural obsignations)

  1. The act of sealing or ratifying.
    • 1643, Samuel Ward, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      You seem in your letter to make the principal end and effect of all sacraments to be obsignation, and all sacraments to be merely obsignatory signs []
  2. Confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “.] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1654, →OCLC:
      , "On the Spirit of Grace"
      The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.