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† omiˈnation Obs.
[ad. L. ōminātiōn-em, n. of action from ōmināre: see prec.]
The action of omening or presaging; prognostication, foreboding.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. (Arb.) 124 If any other man by triall happen vpon a better omination. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 265 Nor was the same [falling of Salt] a generall prognosticke of future evill among the ancients, but a particular omination concerning the breach of friendship. 1650Trapp Comm. Num. xviii. 12 Adding happy ominations and gratulations. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 102 Ominations by Words, Names, Places, Times, in so many several Chapters full of elaborate vanity. |