Rom. Ant. [ad. L. frūmentātiōn-em, f. frūmentārī to furnish with corn, f. frūmentum corn.] (See quot. 1861.)

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1623.  in Cockeram.

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1721–92.  in Bailey.

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1861.  J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, i. 28. The third class were the proletarians, or capite censi, i.e. rated according to number, not property, who paid no taxes, and lived upon the ‘frumentations,’ or public largesses of corn.

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