Obs. [ad. L. ērogatiōn-em, n. of action f. ērogāre: see prec.] The action of the vb. EROGATE; expenditure, esp. in the bestowal of gifts, almsgiving; concr. in pl. money expended.
1531. Elyot, Gov., II. viii. 130. Some thinke suche maner of erogation nat to be worthy the name of liberalitie.
1563. Foxe, Life Latimer, in Serm. & Rem. (1845), p. xii. Works of erogation, foundations, oblations.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., IV. xlvii. (1655), 111 (T.). Touching the Wealth of England, it never also appeer’d so much by public Erogations and Taxes, which the long Parliament rais’d.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 254. Should he … whose literate erogations reach to this and after ages?
1677. Hale, Pomponius Atticus, 204. His greatest Bounty and Erogations commonly employed upon those that were not in any likelihood of making him any return.
