Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Vision.
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- noun obsolete A
vision .
Etymologies
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Examples
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COSTELLO: Me too, because I would love to have smell-avision, now.
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And to that accordeth the avision that Saint Peter saw at
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And he saw in avision, that there came before him a knight armed all in white.
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And our Lord defended them that they should not tell that avision till that he were risen from death to life.
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It were well done, said the hermit, that ye made you ready, and that you disobey not the avision.
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And when they were come, the king told them his avision, what Sir Gawaine had told him, and warned him that if he fought on the morn he should be slain.
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Fast-forward to today, and it's Hulu sans-avision-suffix that's one of the most popular video-services online and featuring Alec Baldwin in advertisements.
Fast Company Austin Carr 2010
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It were well done, said the hermit, that ye made you ready, and that you disobey not the avision.
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And when they were come, the king told them his avision, what Sir Gawaine had told him, and warned him that if he fought on the morn he should be slain.
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So this avision came to Sir Launcelot thrice in one night.
glypheme commented on the word avision
I love this one. According to this 1834 lexicon, it means "the faculty of seeing a vision or phantom."
March 15, 2014