amandation

English

Etymology

Either from amand + -ation, or from Latin amandatio.

Noun

amandation (plural amandations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of sending someone away.
  2. (obsolete) More specifically, sending someone on a message.
  3. (obsolete) A message.
    • c. 1856, Samuel K. Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East by Lorenzo Altisonant:
      In verity, he possessed no habilitation for his function, and as to his supernal amandation, he labored under an entire hallucination.
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