rogation

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.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

Speaking of the Fraternity, they also have put up some images of their rogation day observances; here is a sample:

Children's Feast of St. Jean Baptist de la Salle and Rogation Day Procession 2009

Initially, however, the king did not wait for a rogation day to collect the necessary revenues for the young prince's household.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate.

A Second Home 2007

At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate.

A Second Home 2007

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 form given to the inter - rogation is, in the last resort, unimportant.”

METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

All three, and particu - larly Bruno, extend Ficino's anthropocentrism into cosmic dimensions, as they unfold a universe to be explored and understood through the unfettered inter - rogation of nature rather than by a perusal of tradi - tional authors — an ideal consecrated by Bruno's martyrdom.

PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968

Gaul about the year 452, S. Mamertus bishop of Vienne appointed solemn litanies to be recited on the three _rogation_ days.

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

Special times are appointed for them: the hours for the various parts of the daily Office, days of rogation or of vigil, seasons of Advent and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

This general chapter assembled once a year, at Sempringham, on the rogation days, and was attended by the prior, cellarer, and prioress of each house.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913