[n. of action f. L. lātrāre to bark.] A barking; also fig.
1623. Cockeram, Latration, a barking.
1691. E. Rawson, in Andros Tracts, I. 68. It must needs be beneath a great Mind to take notice of such Latrations, or to answer them any otherwise than with contempt.
1824. New Monthly Mag., XI. 424. We have no three-headed dog chained at the gate of Tartarus to startle the visitants by his tri-linguar latrations.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 194. If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus,’ the ‘rabid animal,’ and the ‘latration’ of the patient.
