Obs. [ad. med.L. fugātiōn-em, n. of action f. L. fugāre: see prec.] a. A chase; privilege of hunting. b. A run for cattle.
a. 1483. Liber Niger, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 62. This Clerk owght to have a booke of Remembraunces of all manner pourveyaunces of beefe and motons, by whom it ys brought yn, and from whense, that the pasture and fugations take trewe allowance.
1502. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 2. That they haue their fugacions and huntyngis lyke as they had the tyme of King Harry the Second.
1526. Househ. Ord. (1790), 196. Item, Fugation of beefs, muttons, and veales.