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▪ I. † reliˈquation1 nonce-wd. [irreg. f. relique relic + -ation.] Devotion to relics.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 367 To resist your Reliquations (the true bankruptures of relligion) is wisdome to Victor, and to the auncient Christians that liued before him. ▪ II. † reliˈquation2 Obs. rare. [ad. L. reliquātiōn-em arrears, balance of a debt, n. of action f. reliquārī to be in arrears.] Balance, residue, remaining matter.
[1658Phillips, Reliquation, remains, or a being in arrearage.] a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 197 The reliquation of that which preceded is, it looks not all like Popery that Presbyterism was disdained by the King. ▪ III. reliˈquation3|riː-| Renewed liquation.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1127, 4. the liquation; 5, the reliquation (ressuage). |