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† ocˈcision Obs.
[a. F. occision (11th c. in Littré), ad. L. occīsiōn-em, n. of action from occīd-ĕre to kill, slay.]
Killing, slaying (esp. of a number of people, as in battle); slaughter.
1375Barbour Bruce xiv. 220 The richt nobil Erll..Maid sic a slauchtir in the toune, And swa felloune occisioune. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cl. (1869) 135 Homicidye it is cleped..and occisioun. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) v. xiv. 344 a/2 The horryble occysyon whiche thou haste commysed. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 354 The place quhare maist occision and slauchter wes of Danis. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. 1881–3 XIV. 287 Why stand I still, and rather do not flie The great occision which the victors make. a1677Hale Hist. Placit. Cor. xlii. (1736) I. 496 This kind of occision of a man according to the laws of the kingdom and in execution thereof ought not to be numbred in the rank of crimes. |