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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Rogation-week, when processions, with singing of litanies, were made in Great Britain, until the Reformation, and in a few instances still are made (under the name of perambulations) by ministers, churchwardens, and parishioners, to survey the bounds of parishes or manors. Also called gang-tide. See rogation.

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