Obs. Also 6 -acion, -acyon. [a. OF. fatigation, ad. L. fatīgātiōn-em, n. of action f. fatīgāre to FATIGUE.]
1. The action of fatiguing; an instance of this.
a. 1529. Skelton, The Image of Ipocrysy, II. 393.
| And other like vexations; | Fatigations, | |
| As with abiurations, | False fundations, | |
| Excomunycations, | And dissimulations, | |
| Aggravations, | With like abbominations. |
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 3. Without frustrate or wilful delay … or any other maner of fatigacion.
2. The state of being fatigued; weariness.
1504. W. Atkinson, trans. à Kempis’ Imit., I. xviii. These sayntes … have served God … in great fatigacion.
1570. Foxe, A. & M., I. 882/1. Cyprus and Albania, whiche he after long fatigation of siege, at length ouercame.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., VI. iv. (1821), 215. He speaks of those fatigations that Daniel complains of.
1720. Strype, Stow’s Surv. (1754), I. I. xxiii. 144/2. Keeping watch … as they had many times before been compelled, to their great Fatigation and unquieting.
