[f. LAUREATE v.: see -ATION.] The action of crowning with laurel or making laureate; in the Scottish Universities, a term for graduation or admission to a degree; also, the creation of a poet laureate.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 422. Mr. Patrick Simson, after his laureation, went to Ingland.
1649. Bp. Guthrie, Mem. (1702), 21. Being a Professor of Philosophy in St. Andrews he did at the Laureation of his Class chuse Archbishop Gladstone for his Patron.
1680. G. Hickes, Spirit of Popery, 28. Yet they now complain of the King, Parliament, and Council, for obliging Expectants, and Scholars, at their Laureation to take the Oath of Allegiance.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., ii. 17. Being allowed only l16 Scotts by my father for the laureation, I borrowed 20 merks from one of my brothers.
1774. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, xxv. (1840), II. 331. These scholastic laureations, however, seem to have given rise to the appellation in question [poeta laureatus].
1834. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1852), 483. The right of laureation conceded to the University of Vienna by Maximilian I. in fact constituted what may be held a distinct faculty,—a Collegium Poeticum.
1843. Dyce, Pref. to Skelton’s Wks., 11. Skelton’s laureation at Oxford.
1867. Masson, Edin. Sketches, 39. Their graduation, or, as it was called, their ‘laureation,’ in Arts.
