avisioun
Middle English
Alternative forms
- avysioun, avysyon, avision, avisyon, advisioun, avysyoun
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French avision; equivalent to a- + visioun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /avizˈjuːn/, /aˈvizjun/, /adˈvizjun/
Noun
avisioun (plural avisiouns)
- A vision; an illusory image, apparition or mirage (especially in one's rest).
- A religious experience or event; a divine vision or foretelling (especially in one's rest)
- (rare) An retelling of a vision or foretelling; a narrative about a vision.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:
- Macrobeus, that writ the avisioun / In Affrike of the worhty Cipioun, / Affermeth dremes, and seith that they been / Warnynge of thynges, that men after seen.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:
Descendants
- English: avision (obsolete)
- Scots: avisioun (obsolete)
References
- “avisiǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-27.