preconization

English

Etymology

From preconize +‎ -ation, compare French préconisation.

Noun

preconization (plural preconizations)

  1. A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      The time was, when the minister, in a solemn preconization, called you either then to speak, or for ever after to hold your peace: had you then spoken, it might have been construed as zeal; now, not to hold your peace, will be interpreted no better than malice.
  2. A formal approbation by the pope of a person nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Addis & Arnold to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for preconization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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