Obs. [ad. L. litātiōn-em, n. of action f. litāre to offer a successful sacrifice.] The action of sacrificing; a sacrifice.
1623. Cockeram, Litation, a sacrifice.
1658. Phillips, Litation, a sacrificing.
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., IX. (1701), 400/2. The terrestrial gods … delight in banquets, and mournings, and funeral litations, and costly sacrifices.
