[ad. late L. exarātiōn-em, n. of action f. exarāre: see EXARATE v.]
† 1. The action of plowing. Obs.–0
1658–96. in Phillips.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
2. The action of tracing (characters) upon stone, or writing. Also concr. a writing; a composition; rare in mod. use.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 76. This pleadeth the necessitie of … their exaration, or drawing, as it were, with his pencill on the Tables of stone.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Ep. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 94. These exarations of his Penn.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 389. The Whimsical Exarations of Socinus, Crellius, [etc.].
1755. in Johnson.
1840. W. H. Morley, in Lane, Arab. Nts. (1841), III. 743. The story in the Persian MS. … is written in three different hands. The first part … has been apparently added since the exaration of the other two.
