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pollicitation|pəlɪsɪˈteɪʃən|
[ad. L. pollicitātiō-nem, vbl. n. of pollicitārī to promise: see prec. and -ation. So F. pollicitation (15th c. in Godefroy).]
The action of promising; a promise; a document conveying a promise; spec. in Civil Law, a promise not yet formally accepted, and therefore in certain cases revocable.
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. li. 133 As yet the pope's holiness hath not required the king's pollicitation. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 182 His promise and pollicitation passed upon the same. 1602F. Herring Anat. 14 Vaunting Pollicitations of binding Beares, and moouing Mountaines. 1715Burnet Hist. Ref. iii. ii. 41 These are in the Promise, or Pollicitation, which I do now publish. 1726R. Fiddes Wolsey i. 433 His Holiness..signed a Pollicitation, whereby he obliged himself to confirm the sentence. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 360 Pollicitation is the offer of the one party before it is accepted by the other. 1894Mrs. Hope 1st Divorce Hen. VIII 121 They were to try to get a ‘policitation’, or promise, from the Pope that he would not remove the cause to Rome. |