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Etymology
From Latin prensatio, from prensare, prehensare, verb frequentative from prehendere (“to seize”).
Noun
prensation (countable and uncountable, plural prensations)
- (obsolete) The act of seizing with violence; seizure
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “ that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. , London: Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, , published 1680, →OCLC, page 149:[B]y ambitious prenſations, by Simoniacal corruptions, by political bandyings, by popular factions, by all kinds of ſiniſter vvays, men crept into the place, doth appear by thoſe many diſmal Schiſms, […]
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