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.]

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  1.  A vision, dream.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 4516. Pharaon … commanded be-for him bring Clerc and knithe, erle and baron To sceu til his a-uisiun.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Nonne Pr. T., 294. A litil or he was mordred … His mordre in his avysioun he say.

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a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, 48. She awoke of her traunce and auicion.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, III. i. 69. Beseiking this auisioun worth happy.

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  2.  Warning or monition (given in a dream).

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1297.  R. Glouc., 255. Þe kyng þys auyson, þat þe angel hym seyde, Þe oþer tolde priuelyche.

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1525.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. civ. [cc.] 627. Preace thou forthe and shewe them thine aduysyon, for thou shalte be herde.

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