Obs. rare. [ad. L. suffrāgātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. suffrāgārī to SUFFRAGATE.] The giving of a vote.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 12. Our suffragation, or consenting voices.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 176. A diabolicall … contract, sacrament, suggestion, suffragation, operation, and delusion.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
So † Suffragator [L. suffrāgātor], a voter, supporter; witness; † Suffragatory a. [L. suffrāgātōrius], exercising a right to vote.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. vii. 262. Did euer any man make them his suffragators or spokes-men to god?
1618. T. Morton, in Ussher’s Lett. (1686), 67. The Synod … is held at Dort, the most of their Suffragators are already Assembled.
1813. Monthly Mag., XXXV. 427/1. Suffragatory institutions were to be solicited.
