† litationn.
Obsolete.
The action of sacrificing; a sacrifice.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Litation, a sacrifice.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Litation, a sacrificing.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 93 The terrestriall gods,..delight in banquets, and mournings, and funerall litations, and costly sacrifices.
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