Lation definition

(astrology, obsolete) Motion of a celestial object from one place to another; local motion.

Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre of the Universe, exempt from any sort of lation.

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Lation Sentence Examples

  • The foreign-born popu lation shows a large increase in percentage to the whole, being 1.57 in 1881 and 2.98 in 1901.

  • Queen Mary, unshaken in her attachment to the ancient faith and the papal monarchy, was able with the sanction of a subservient parlia ment to turn back the wheels of ecclesiastical legis lation, to restore the old religion, and to reunite the 1558.

  • In this work, which is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of algebra, Cardan shows that he was familiar with both real positive and negative roots of equations whether rational or irrational, but of imaginary roots he was quite ignorant, and he admits his inability to resolve the so-called lation of Arabic manuscripts.

  • The spores are ejected from the apothecia and peri thecia as in the fungi by forcible ejacu lation from the asci.

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