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n. - A solemn supplication ceremony prescribed by the church.

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  • Laws, or rather, Rogations, for a law before it was finally passed was known as a rogation, and these were long discussed before they were agreed to.
  • Speaking of the Fraternity, they also have put up some images of their rogation day observances; here is a sample:
  • Initially, however, the king did not wait for a rogation day to collect the necessary revenues for the young prince's household.
  • He still insists that metaphysics is, above all else, a form of “questioning and interro - gation,” but by now his own survey forces him to go on to say that “the particular...
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