† aˈvision Obs.
Forms: 3–4 auisiun, awision, a visyon, 3–5 auysyon, -ion, 4–5 avision, 4–6 au- avisioun, 5 avysioun, auicion, -yon, aduision, -uysion, 6 -uysyon.
[a. OF. avision, -iun, app. f. à to + vision, -iun, by form-association with aviser, avisement, etc. As in the other words of the avise-advise group, the pref. a- was often written ad- in 15th c.]
1. A vision, dream.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 4516 Pharaon..commanded be-for him bring Clerc and knithe, erle and baron To sceu til his a-uisiun. c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 294 A litil or he was mordred..His mordre in his avysioun he say. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 48 She awoke of her traunce and auicion. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. i. 69 Beseiking this auisioun worth happy. |
2. Warning or monition (given in a dream).
| 1297 R. Glouc. 255 Þe kyng þys auyson, þat þe angel hym seyde, Þe oþer tolde priuelyche. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cciv. [cc.] 627 Preace thou forthe and shewe them thine aduysyon, for thou shalte be herde. |