▪ I. † reliˈquation1 nonce-wd.
[irreg. f. relique relic + -ation.]
Devotion to relics.
| 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 367 To resist your Reliquations (the true bankruptures of relligion) is wisdome to Victor, and to the auncient Christians that liued before him. |
▪ II. † reliˈquation2 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. reliquātiōn-em arrears, balance of a debt, n. of action f. reliquārī to be in arrears.]
Balance, residue, remaining matter.
| [1658 Phillips, Reliquation, remains, or a being in arrearage.] a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 197 The reliquation of that which preceded is, it looks not all like Popery that Presbyterism was disdained by the King. |
▪ III. reliˈquation3
(riː-)
Renewed liquation.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1127, 4. the liquation; 5, the reliquation (ressuage). |