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† eroˈgation Obs.
[ad. L. ērogatiōn-em, n. of action f. ērogāre: see prec.]
The action of the vb. erogate; expenditure, esp. in the bestowal of gifts, almsgiving; concr. in pl. money expended.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. viii, Some thinke suche maner of erogation nat to be worthy the name of liberalitie. 1563Foxe Life Latimer in Serm. & Rem. (1845) p. xii, Works of erogation, foundations, oblations. c1645Howell Lett. iv. xlvii. (T.), Touching the wealth of England, it never also appeared so much by publick erogations and taxes, which the Long Parliament raised. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 254 He..whose literate erogations reach to this and after ages. 1677Hale Pomponius Atticus 204 His greatest Bounty and Erogations commonly employed upon those that were not in any likelihood of making him any return. |