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Definition of Rogations

Rogation
Rogation Ro*ga"tion, n. [L. rogatio, fr. rogare, rogatum, to ask, beg, supplicate: cf. F. rogation. Cf. Abrogate, Arrogant, Probogue.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree. 2. (Eccl.) Litany; supplication. He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. --Hooker. Rogation days (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication. Rogation flower (Bot.), a European species of milkwort (Polygala vulgaris); -- so called from its former use for garlands in Rogation week. --Dr. Prior. Rogation week, the second week before Whitsunday, in which the Rogation days occur.

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- so-called major rogation is held on 25 April; the minor rogations are held on Monday to Wednesday preceding Ascension Thursday. The word rogation comes from...
- known as the Licinian Rogations (368 BC) Rogationists This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Rogation. If an internal link led...
- Gr**** and Roman chronologies. The three alleged rogations touched on a number of topics. The first rogation was a mechanism for debt relief. The second imposed...
- The Licino-****tian rogations were a series of laws proposed by tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius ****tius Later****, enacted around...
- Livy claims that the praetorship was created by the ****tian-Licinian Rogations in 367 BC, but it was well known both to Livy and other Romans in the...
- In Syriac Christianity, the Fast of Nineveh (classical Syriac: ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܝ̈ܐ Bā'ūṯā ḏ-Ninwāyē, literally "Petition of the Ninevites") is a three-day fast...
- Saints was pra****. The "Litania Minor", also called Minor Rogations or "Gallicana", the Rogation Days before Ascension, was introduced (477) by St. Mamertus...
- celebrating litaniam, quae major ab omnibus appellatur. The litaniae minores or rogations, held on the three days preceding Ascension Day, were first introduced...
- referred to as the Rogation days, and the previous Sunday—the Sixth Sunday of Easter (or the Fifth Sunday after Easter)—as Rogation Sunday. Ascension has...
- the founder of the Minor Rogations Processions, held on Monday to Wednesday preceding Ascension Thursday. The Minor Rogations were traditionally observed...