Also 6 Sc. -ioune. [f. L. celāre to conceal: see -ATION.] Concealment; esp. in Law, concealment of birth or pregnancy.
1567. Sc. Acts (1814), 573 (Jam.). In occultatioun and celatioune of the premissis.
1881. Syd. Soc. Lex., Celation, the concealment of pregnancy or parturition.
