avision

English

Etymology

From Middle English avisioun, from Old French avision.

Noun

avision (plural avisions)

1. (obsolete) A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature.
   • 1572, Edward Cradock, The shippe of assured safetie, page 460:

     When the Emperour with great humilitie had thus earnestly prayed, the same night after, by the great mercy of God, an auision was shewed vnto hym to his comforte. Wherin it séemed, that [302] béeing solemnly cited to appere, he heard a voyce from heauen, as it were of oure Lorde Iesus Chryst, saying: Bring me hither Mauricius.

   • a. 1581, Polydore Vergil, translated by Thomas Langley, De rerum inventoribus, published 1686, page 90:

     Obelisci or Pyramids […] The First of them was instituted by Mitres […] being commanded by avision to make it […]

   • 1659, Jakob Böhme, translated by John Sparrow, The fifth book of the authour, in three parts the first, Of the becoming man or incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, that is, concerning the Virgin Mary […] and how the Eternal word is become man: the second part is of Christ's suffering, dying, death, and resurrection […] : the third part is of The tree of Christian faith […] , part 2, chapter 3, page 132:

     26. After which therefore the Eternal willing of the Abyss of the Deity hath pleased to Long, from whence the divine Imagination hath existed, so that the Abyssal will of the Deity, hath thus from Eternity, in the Imagination, with the power of the Avision or Aspect, or form of the Looking-Glass of Wonders, impregnated it self.

References

• “avision”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avision”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

avision

1. Alternative form of avisioun

Further reading

• “avision”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avision”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Old French

Etymology

a- +‎ vision

Noun

avision oblique singular, f (oblique plural avisions, nominative singular avision, nominative plural avisions)

1. vision (religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance)

Descendants

• → Middle English: avisioun, avysioun, avysyon, avision, avisyon, advisioun, avysyoun
  • English: avision (obsolete)
  • Scots: avisioun (obsolete)