mutuation

Definitions

An act of borrowing or exchanging.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“A sheep may teach⟳ thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap⟳ a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see⟳, and the proud will not own⟳.”

“After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.”

“He referred to the mutuations of fortune, and how the members of society had an interest⟳ in this because the day might come⟳ when those rich now might be dependent upon this instrumentality for the education of their children.”

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