avisioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

• avysioun, avysyon, avision, avisyon, advisioun, avysyoun

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French avision; equivalent to a- +‎ visioun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(d)ˌviziˈuːn/, /a(d)ˈvizjun/

Noun

avisioun (plural avisiouns)

1. A vision; an illusory image, apparition or mirage (especially in one's rest).
2. A religious experience or event; a divine vision or foretelling (especially in one's rest)
3. (rare) An retelling of a vision or foretelling; a narrative about a vision.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Nun's Priest's Tale”, in 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.

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Descendants

• English: avision (obsolete)
• Scots: avisioun (obsolete)

References

• “avisiǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-27.