obsignation

English

Etymology

Latin obsignatio.

Noun

obsignation (countable and uncountable, plural obsignations)

1. The act of sealing or ratifying.
   • 1643, Samuel Ward, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     You seem in your letter to make the principal end and effect of all sacraments to be obsignation, and all sacraments to be merely obsignatory signs […]

2. Confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
     , "On the Spirit of Grace"

     The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.