单词 | erogation |
释义 | † erogationn. Obsolete. The action of erogate v.; expenditure, esp. in the bestowal of gifts, almsgiving; concrete in plural money expended. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [noun] custeOE largessea1393 largitionc1475 lavish1483 enlarginga1513 effusion1514 erogation1531 dispense1590 profusion1590 Maundy1595 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving alms-deedc1175 charityc1175 alms-gifta1325 almsgivinga1438 charitableness1447 erogation1531 almonage1667 benefaction1674 tzedakah1959 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. viii. sig. Qvii Some thinke suche maner of erogation nat to be worthy the name of liberalitie. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1298/1 Woorkes of erogation, foundations, oblations. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 174 He..whose literate erogations reach to this and after-ages. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xlvii. 111 Touching the Wealth of England, it never also appeer'd so much by public Erogations and Taxes, which the long Parlement rais'd. a1676 M. Hale tr. C. Nepos Life P. Atticus (1677) 204 His greatest Bounty and Erogations commonly employed upon those that were not in any likelihood of making him any return. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1531 |
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