Meanings
plural amandations
- obsoleteThe act of sending someone away.
- obsoleteMore specifically, sending someone on a message.
- obsoleteA message.
In verity, he possessed no habilitation for his function, and as to his supernal amandation, he labored under an entire hallucination.
c. 1856, Samuel K. Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East by Lorenzo Altisonant
Origin
- Latinamandatio
- Englishamandation
Either from amand + -ation, or from Latin amandatio.
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