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Forms: 4–6 rogacioun, 5–6 rogacion, 5 -cyon (ragacyoun), 6 -tioun, 6– rogation.
[ad. L. rogātio, -iōnis (f. rogāre to ask), whence also F. rogation (14th c.), Sp. rogacion, Pg. rogação, It. rogazione. The pl. form used in sense 1 corresponds to med.L. Rogationes, Rogaciones, F. Rogations, Sp. Rogaciones, Pg. Rogações, It. Rogazioni.]
1. Eccl. (Usually pl.) Solemn supplications consisting of the litany of the saints, chanted during procession on the three days before Ascension Day; hence freq., the days upon which this is done, the Rogation days. (Cf. roveison.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 299 Seint Mammertus..ordeyned solempne letanyes þat beeþ i-cleped þe Rogaciouns, aȝenst erþe schakynge. 1430in Halliw. Rara Mathem. (1841) 92 Þis table tellyȝt qwen lentyn fallyth,..qwen þe Rogacyons and qwen qwytesoneday. c1440Astron. Cal. (MS. Ashm. 391), And so in like forme Estre, Rogacion, and Wytsonday. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 22 a/1 [The second litany] is said the letanye the lasse, the rogacions, and processions. 1547Bk. of Marchauntes b j b, Pardons, indulgences, remissions,..rogacions,..and holy workes of God. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xli. §2 Supplications with this solemnitie for the appeasing of Gods wrath.. were of the Greeke Church termed Litanies, Rogations, of the Latine. 1604Bk. Com. Prayer, Tables, etc., Rogations, after Easter v weekes. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor Dubit. iii. iv. (1676) 643 The solemn days of Rogation which we observe in the Church of England were not of an immemorial beginning. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts ii. vi. (1739) 516 The Curate..in the Days of Rogations..shall admonish the People. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. viii. 134 Mamert..first instituted the fast of Rogation. 1872Shipley Eccl. Terms 315 The inner narthex was the place for rogations, watches, funeral rites, and sometimes baptisms. 1884Cath. Dict. (1897) 794/1 The Rogations began in the kingdom of Burgundy.
attrib.1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. iv. xiii. §23 The Rogation fast (all the World knows) was instituted by Mammercus Bishop of Vienna. 1812J. Brady Clavis Cal. I. 338 Leaving..the object of Mumertus's alteration in the Rogation ceremony undecided. 1872Shipley Eccl. Terms s.v. Rogational, Antiphons used at Rogation-tide, or in connexion with litanies.
b. Rogation days, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Ascension Day. (Cf. gang-days.) Rogation week, the week in which Ascension Day falls. (Cf. gang-week.) Rogation Sunday, the fifth Sunday after Easter, being the Sunday before Ascension Day.
(a)c1400Harl. MS. 2247 lf. 105 b, Euery man..shulde faste Monday, Tewsday & Wednesday, and go in procession; for þei be called Rogacion dayes of prayer. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. (1520) v. 58 b/1 In his tyme were the Rogacyon dayes ordeyned. 1503in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. (1902) 152 So was it..ether yn the Rogacion dayes or a litill befor. 1563Foxe A. & M. 476 b, I wold..that you would but once search and set out the first origin of these Rogation days. 1611Cotgr., Rogations, Rogation dayes, the Rogation weeke. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, call'd Rogations, or Rogation Days. 1812J. Brady Clavis Cal. I. 335 So early as the year 550, Claudius Mumertus..extended the object of the Rogation days. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 696/1 The three days before Ascension..are still known in the English Church as Rogation Days.
(b)1530Palsgr. 263/2 Rogation weke, la sepmaine des rouaisons. 1535Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 27 The 4th day of May followinge, being Tewsday in the Rogation week. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 30 Lent might be cleane spung'd out of the Kalender, with Rogation weeks. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 123 The observation of Gangdays, or rogation week, is wholly popish. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 186 You that do, as if it were in Rogation week, perambulate the Bounds of government. 1725Bourne in Brand Pop. Antiq. (1777) xxvi. 264 The Litanies or Rogations, which..gave Name to the Time of Rogation-Week. 1812J. Brady Clavis Cal. I. 336 The whole week in which these days happen is styled Rogation week. 1826Digby Broadstone Hon. (1846) II. 364 Cross-flower, or rogation-flower,..was carried in the processions of rogation week.
(c)1662Bk. Com. Prayer, Tables, etc., Rogation-Sunday is Five weeks after Easter. 1681Wharton Facts & Fest. Wks. (1683) 20 This is also called Rogation Sunday and the week following Rogation Week. 1725Bourne in Brand Pop. Antiq. (1777) xxvi. 267 The particular Office order'd by our Church for Rogation-Sunday. 1841R. T. Hampson Medii ævi Cal. II. 339 The 1st of the Rogations, April 26, is the first day on which Rogation Sunday can fall. 1872Shipley Eccl. Terms, Rogation Sunday, the Sunday before Ascension day.
c. rogation flower, the milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), formerly made into garlands and carried in processions on Rogation days.
1597Gerarde Herbal 450 Milke woort..in English we may cal it Crosse flower, Gang flower, Rogation flower. 1826Digby Broadstone Hon. (1846) II. 364 Cross-flower, or rogation-flower, [blooms] about the 3rd of May. 1890Sarum Dioc. Gaz. Jan. 6/1 To make ‘Good Friday’ and ‘Rogation Flower’ fit guides to the search for early blossoms of Tuberous Moschatel and Milkwort.
†d. transf. Supplication for alms; begging. Also punningly, with allusion to ‘rogue’. Obs.
c1540Copland Hye Way to Spyttel Ho. 425 And so they lewter in suche rogacyons Seven or eyght yeres, walkyng theyr stacyons, And do but gull, and folow beggery. 1607Middleton Fam. Love i. iii, Gud. How is't? methinks thou hast been a long vagrant. Lip. The rogation hath been long indeed.
2. Rom. Antiq. The act, on the part of a consul or tribune, of submitting a proposed law to the people for their acceptance; also, a law so submitted and accepted.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 155 Graccus desirede those possessiones to be restorede to the peple in a day of Rogacion, when thynges to be restorede awede to be askede. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. xviii. (S.T.S.) II. 21 Be þis law wes gevin ane scharp brod to þe rogatioun of tribunis. a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. i. vii. (1609) 7 The Emperors claime this tyrannical power by pretence of that Rogation or Plebiscitum which Caius Caesar or Octauius obtained. 1653[F. Phillips] Consid. Crt. Chancery 2 The Romans..in the Rogation and promulgation of their Laws. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rogatio, Frequently, also, Rogation is used in the same Sense with Law; because there never was any Law established among the Romans, but what was done by this kind of Rogation. 1774De Lolme Constit. Eng. ii. xv. 325 The Tribunes..insisting that the Tribes should vote on their three rogations. 1853Merivale Fall Rom. Rep. i. i. 28 Still more were they alarmed when he proposed and carried a rogation for the foundation of ample colonies. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 261 The era before the Rogations of Licinius became law.
†3. A formal request. Obs.
1603Jas. I True Law Free Mon. Wks. (1616) 202 In the Parliament..the lawes are but craued by his subiects, and onely made by him at their rogation. 1647Digges Unlawf. taking up Arms 140 Their rogation must precede His ratification. 1680Filmer Patriarcha iii. §15 In Parliament all Statutes or Laws are made properly by the King alone, at the Rogation of the people.
Hence roˈgational a. (See quot.)
1872Shipley Eccl. Terms, Rogational Antiphons, antiphons used at Rogation-tide, or in connexion with litanies. |