sigillatio

sigillatio [LL sigillare+-tio] 1 (act of making) mark or impression (in quot. of seal in wax); b (transf.). sicut sigillum facit suam ~onem in cera Bacon II 19.  b nam si fuerit substancia cerebri mollis, clara, ac pervia, de facili recipit formarum inpressiones et ~ones [Trevisa: þe formynge and þe prentinge of schappes and liknes of þinges] Bart. Angl. V 3; multas alterationes necesse est precedere [sc. in embryone] antequam fiat ~o forme vivifice, que consequenter dicitur generatio Ps.-Gros. Summa 367. 2 (act of) sealing or setting a seal to (document). 1248 rediit ad curiam apud Wudestok' die Jovis proximo ante ~onem Cl 47; 1369 pro ~one unius littere, vj s. viij d. Ac. Durh. 575; 1374 in indenturarum ~one predictarum Pri. Cold. 45; 1385 pro scriptura et ~one predicte carte, xvj s. Ac. Durh. 595; 1389 clerici ‥ sedeant extra barram ejusdem cancellarie tempore ~onis et placitorum tenendorum Chanc. Orders 3; 1492 presentes convenciones ‥ ratificabuntur per patentes literas ‥ necnon subscripcione et ~one certorum dominorum et nobilium RScot 504b. 3 (in non-diplomatic context, act of) sealing or setting a seal to, or (of) stamping or otherwise marking (merchandise or mercantile artefact); b (w. ref. to sealing of bandaged hand after carrying of hot iron in judicial ordeal). 1324 pro ~one trone de Lenne MGL II 106; 1377 pro cera rubea et alba, empta pro ~one saccorum ExchScot 554; c1420 ~onem panni, diminucionem lane et vini ‥ in regno fieri Misc. Scrope 296.  b post insigilletur manus ejus, et inquiratur die tertia si inmunda sit vel munda in ipsa ~one [v. l. intra ~onem; AS: binnan þam insegle] (Quad.) GAS 387.