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† fatiˈgation Obs.
Also 6 -acion, -acyon.
[a. OF. fatigation, ad. L. fatīgātiōn-em, n. of action f. fatīgāre to fatigue.]
1. The action of fatiguing; an instance of this.
a1529Skelton Image Ipocr. ii. 393 Other like vexations; As with..Fatigations..And dissimulations, With like abbominations. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 3 Without frustrate or wilful delay..or any other maner of fatigacion.
2. The state of being fatigued; weariness.
1504W. Atkinson tr. à Kempis' Imit. i. xviii, These sayntes..have served God..in great fatigacion. 1570Foxe A. & M. I. 882/1 Cyprus and Albania, whiche he after long fatigation of siege, at length ouercame. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. iv. (1821) 215 He speaks of those fatigations that Daniel complains of. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) I. i. xxiii. 144/2 Keeping watch..as they had many times..been compelled, to their great Fatigation and unquieting. |