mutuation

plural mutuations

1. countableobsoleteuncountableAn act of borrowing or exchanging.

   A sheep may teach thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see, and the proud will not own.

   1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw

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   After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervestigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

   1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, “LETTER NO. VIII.”, in Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, 2nd edition, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., →OL, page 28

   He referred to the mutuations of fortune, and how the members of society had an interest in this because the day might come when those rich now might be dependent upon this instrumentality for the education of their children.

   1876, The Eclectic Teacher and Kentucky School Journal