Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bringing forth; utterance; pronunciation.
- noun Delivery; measure; tune.
- noun The act of deferring; delay.
- noun In medieval music, a method of subdividing the semibreve into minims — that is, rhythmical subdivision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation.
- noun obsolete The act of deferring; delay.
- noun (Mus.) A mediæval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Speaking ,utterance , the producing of words or speech. - noun The relative time value of a
minim to asemibreve in mediaeval music. - noun obsolete
Production , bringing forth. - noun obsolete, theology The production or emission of the
logos or divine word.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They had the eternity from one word, and the prolation, the emanation from another word.
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The like also would he doe in words of different Languages, and of hard and difficult prolation, to any number whatsoever: but that which was most strange, and very rare in him, was his way of writing, which something like the _Chineses_, was from the top of the page to the bottom: the manner thus.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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But at least Novatian has the merit of not identifying the Word with the Father, nor Sonship with the prolation of the Word for the purpose of Creation, for He plainly teaches the eternal generation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Secondly, because at the prolation and repetition of this canticle, that tribulation ceased.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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In treating on the letters, I shall not, like some other grammarians, inquire into the original of their form, as an antiquarian; nor into their formation and prolation by the organs of speech, as a mechanick, anatomist, or physiologist; nor into the properties and gradation of sounds, or the elegance or harshness of particular combinations, as a writer of universal and transcendental grammar.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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A] prolation of m "" Hezekiah Vshe '' m '"Thomas Lake &. m'"
Suffolk deeds 1653
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