Obs. [ad. L. versātiōn-, versātio, noun of action f. versāre: see VERSE v.2] A turning over or backwards and forwards. Also attrib.
1656. Blount, Glossogr. (following Cooper), Versation, a turning or winding.
1673. Oley, Pref. to Jackson’s Wks., I. p. xxx. Reader, if thou wilt believe thirty or forty years experience, or versation of this author, thou wilt find at every return new matter both of observation and delight in him.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 8. Any other of the Rough Versation-Orders of our Dissenting Separatists.
1837. Fraser’s Mag., XV. 717. Requiring such perpetual versation of the pages backwards and forwards to connect one section with another.
