Astrol. Obs. [a. L. lātiōn-em, n. of action f. lāt-, ppl. stem of ferre to bear, carry.] The action of moving, or the motion of a body from one place to another; motion of translation.
1603. Sir C. Heydon, Jud. Astrol., xii. 290. Then Lation or locall permutation should not be the first of all motions.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 4. 177. I meane Lation, or local-motion from one place to another.
1648. Herrick, Hesper. (1869), 64. Make me the straight and oblique lines, The motions, lations, and the signes.
1655. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. (1701), 7/1. The four kinds of motion (viz. Lation, Alteration, Diminution, Accretion).
1690. Leybourn, Curs. Math., 431. The Mundane System is consider’d … having the Sun in the Centre, exempt from any motion of Lation.
