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noun

Rogation n.

(Rom. Antiq.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.

(Eccl.) Litany; supplication. "He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use."

Rogation days (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication.

Rogation flower (Bot.), a European species of milkwort (Polygala vulgaris); so called from its former use for garlands in Rogation week.

Rogation week, the second week before Whitsunday, in which the Rogation days occur.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rogation" Quotes from Famous Books

... courts Christian through the churchwardens were the keeping of annual perambulations (or, as we should say today, beating the bounds of the parish) by parson, wardens and certain of the substantial men of the parish, in the second week before Whit-Sunday ("Rogation Week");[75] the exhibiting to the official of the parish register, or the putting in of copies of it once a year at Easter;[76] the choosing in conjunction with the parson of collectors for the poor up to 1597, in most parishes ...

— The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects • Sedley Lynch Ware

... Appointed to be Read," and also "The Order how the Best of the Holy Scripture is Appointed to be Read." Four "Tables of Lessons" are given—for Sundays, for Holy-Days, for the forty days of Lent and the Rogation and Ember-Days, and for all the days of the year ...

— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester

Words linked to "Rogation" : Rogation Day, invocation