oblatration

English

Noun

oblatration (plural oblatrations)

  1. The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.
    • February 18 1629, Bishop Joseph Hall, Salvation from an Untoward Generation
      The Apostle fears none of these currish oblatrations
    • 1867, William Gifford (of Leith), Memorials of the life and work of the Rev. William Johnston
      You were never a very hot Voluntary, even when some, who are now among the dumb dogs that cannot or will not bark, were keeping up a most violent oblatration […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oblatration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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