Obs. [f. med.L. cautionāt- ppl. stem of cautionāre, F. cautionner: see -ATE2.] To take or apply precautions; to furnish or guard with ‘cautions’ or provisos. Hence Cautionated, Cautionating ppl. adjs.
1621. W. Sclater, Tythes (1623), 176. Practising freely, yea teaching lawfulnesse of cautionated vsurie.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Ps. xxxiii. 1. That cautionating counsel of Bernard. Ibid. (1655), Marrow Gd. Auth. (1868), 842/2. It is cautionated by the duke of Russia, that there be no schools.
1658–9. in Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 143. To cautionate any prejudice that can be upon our rights and liberties, by a general question. Ibid., 200. If you cautionate it so that the previous vote shall be upon what is debated.
