nonce-wd. [f. TALK v. + -ATION.] A talking. (Usually dyslogistic.)
1771. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mason (1861), 9 Sept., VIII. 77. Besides not loving talkation, it is painful to me to write.
1800. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., IV. 155. It was no discourse … but a kind of talkation (if I may be allowed the expression).
1878. R. F. D. Palgrave, House of Commons, i. 17. As the strife of tongues is the express object of a Parliament, or ‘a talkation,’ words of offence must needs occur.
1898. B. Gregory, Side Lights Confl. Meth., 204. A tangled, wearisome talkation then ensued as to Mr. Bromley’s treatment of and by the District Meeting at Manchester.
