rogation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ROGA'TION, noun [Latin rogatio; rogo, to ask.] 1. Litany; supplication. He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. 2. In Roman jurisprudence, the demand by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people.
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