† properationn.
Obsolete.
The action of hastening.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > action of
speed-making1548
hurrying1613
properation1615
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > action of causing
acceleration1490
hastening1545
properation1615
speedying1617
precipitation1621
hurry-up1944
1615 T. Adams Mystical Bedlam 49 Yet (for all this) deathes properation preuents thy preparation.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxi. 99 Often handling of the withering Flowre..is a properation of more swift decay.
1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors x. 139 The whole mass, is more powerfully propell'd and plentifully excluded, the vitious Juices are thrown off according to their readiness and Distance, which crowding, becomes a Circumstance of Escape and Properation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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n.1615- to make conversation
- to make count of
- to make countenance
- to make courtesy
- to make courtesy at
- to make dainty of
- to make dainty of anything
- to make dainty of doing
- to make dainty to do
- to make danger
- to make daybreak
- to make debate
- to make default
- to make defeat of
- to make defeat on
- to make defeat upon
- to make defend
- to make deray
- to make dice of a person's bones
- to make dice of bones
- to make difficulties
- to make difficulty
- to make do
- to kick upstairs
- to kick — bells out of