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Home Dictionary Name: rogationRogation Week
Rogation Week [fr. rogando (Deum), Lat., supplicating God], the second week before Whit Sunday; thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called Rogation days, because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord....
Rogation
Rogation [fr. rogatio, Lat.], the demand by the consul or tribunes of law, to be passed by the people, Civ. Law....
Cross week
Rogation week when the cross was borne in processions...
Rogation
The demand by the consuls or tribunes of a law to be passed by the people a proposed law or decree...
Abrogation
Abrogation [abrogatio, Lat.], the act of annulling; the repeal of a law. It stands opposed to rogation: it is distinguished from derogation, which implies the taking away only some part of a law; from subrogation, which denotes the adding a clause to it; from obrogation, which implies the limiting or restraining it; from dispensation, which only sets it aside in a particular instance; and from antiquation, which is the refusing to pass a law, Encyc. Londin....
Gang-week
Gang-week [fr. gangan, Sax., to go], the time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers-rogation week....
Parish Boundaries
Parish Boundaries, see 1 Vict. c. 69, s. 2; 2 & 3Vict. c. 62, ss. 34-6; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 15, s. 28; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118, ss. 39-45; and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 83, ss. 1, 9. See also 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 278; and as to the better arrangement of divided parishes, see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. In order to perpetuate the memory of parish boundaries it was anciently the custom for the parishioners to walk round or perambulate the parish generally during Rogation Week. This was called 'beating the bounds.' Although the fixing of parish boundaries by Act of Parliament and the more general use of maps has done away with this necessity, perambulations still take place in many parishes. As to alteration of parish boundaries, see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 141....
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