ballotation

English

Etymology

From ballot +‎ -ation.

Noun

ballotation (countable and uncountable, plural ballotations)

1. (obsolete) Voting by ballot.
   • a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter

     In the first Ballotation, the Balls were equal: in the second, there was one Ball more (as they say) in the negative Box

References

• “ballotation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.