grassation

English

Etymology

From Latin grassātiō (“rioting”), from grassāri.

Noun

grassation (countable and uncountable, plural grassations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
      If in Vice there be a perpetual Grassation, there must be in virtue a perpetual Vigilance

References
  • grassation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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