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▪ I. orison arch.|ˈɒrɪzən, -sən|
Forms: α. 2–3 ureisun, 3–5 oreison, etc. (5 uresun, Caxton oroyson), 3–6 oreson, etc., 6 orayson, orasoun, 6–7 orason, 6–9 oraison, 7 oraizon; β. 3– orison, (3–7 -oun, oryson, etc., 4–6 urison, etc., 4–7 horison, 5 orisson, urrysone, 6 Sc. wrisoun, wriesone, 6–8 orizon, 6 -one): with interchanges in 3–7 of i and y, and of -on, -un, -onn, -unn, -oun, -own, with or without final e.
[a. OF. oreisun, orison (12th c.), now oraison (16th c. in Littré) = Pr. orazon, Sp. oracion, It. orazione:—L. ōrātiōn-em speech, oration, in Christian L. an address to God, a prayer (Vulgate); n. of action f. ōrāre to utter words, speak, pray, f. ōs, ōr- mouth. Etymologically a doublet of oration.]
1. A prayer. (In later use chiefly in pl.: cf. say one's prayers.)
αc1175Lamb. Hom. 51 Þe halie ureisuns þe me singeð in halie chirche. a1225Ancr. R. 16 Siggeð so al ðe imne..& te oreisun, ‘Deus qui corda’. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 64/375 Al one in is oresones: þere he lai wel stille. 1340Ayenb. 51 He begynþ his matyns and his benes and his oreysones. 1490Caxton How to Die 1 Certayn oreysons and deuoute prayers that they oughte to saye. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xliii. 146 Whan he had made his oreson ther came a sarazyn to Huon. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 36 The Captain Bassa..performing appointed oraisons and ceremonies. 1740Dyer Ruins of Rome Poems (1761) 21 The pilgrim oft..'mid his oraison hears Aghast the voice of time.
β1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7196 As þis holiman adde is orison ydo þere. c1320R. Brunne Medit. 361 Þe same orysun þat he preyd byfore. 1382Wyclif Dan. ix. 17 Now forsothe, oure God, heere the orisoun of thi seruaunt. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋965 Of whiche orisons certes in the orison of the Pater noster hath Ihesu crist enclosed moost thynges. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. ix. (Skeat) I. 92 Devoute horisons & praiers to God. c1420Chron. Vilod. st. 582 Wiþ certeyne urrysones for hurre prayng. 1474Caxton Chesse 33 They wake alle the nyght in prayers and orisons. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 349, I teichit thame the dominicall wrisoun quhilk we call the Lordis prayer. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 50 Manie orizons [she made] to Hymæneus. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 89 Soft you now, The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons Be all my sinnes remembred. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 137 When Adam and first Matron Eve Had ended now thir Orisons. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xv, Remember me in your orisons. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xli, Three tongues prefer strange Orisons on high. 1868Milman St. Paul's vii. 144 Provided for the due celebration of these inestimable orisons.
Comb.1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi, To the same place came his orison-mutterer.
b. Without an or pl.: The action of praying, prayer. Now rare.
c1250O. Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 28 Stor, for holy urisun. Mirre, for gode werkes. a1300Cursor M. 15623 To-quils he lai in orisun. 1483Caxton Cato F iv, There by the space of twenty dayes as he was in oryson. 1572Lament. Lady Scotl. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 246 Thus to disdane the hous of orisoun. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 19 The soul hath in orison familiar converse with God.
†2. A speech, oration. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas vi. xv. (1554) 161 b, Through his language, this sayd Tullius Reconciled by his soote Orisons. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 43 The prencipal scheiphirde maid ane orison tyl al the laif of his conpanyȝons. 1603Philotus lxv, Ȝovr Orisoun sir sounds with sic skil In Cupids Court as ȝe had bene vpbrocht.
▪ II. orison, -soun, -sont(e
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