amotionn.

1441 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 124 Vndere peyne of fynale and perpetuelle amocyone and priuacyone of yowe fro your office and dignytee of prioressye.

1449 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 167/1 As sone as that Office to your hand..by deth, cession, amocion, resumpcion..or elles in eny othir maner it be, next then to come.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 77 A generall amotion of corrupt Officers.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 205 The Admission and Amotion of them do usually belong to the Bishop and Archdeacon both.

1789 E. Pendleton Let. 11 Mar. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 553 The amotion from office of the whole bench of judges of appeals.

1893 T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. ii. 56 The Commissary..could not proceed to the amotion of the President, a Fellow, or Probationer, without the consent of three out of the seven most senior Fellows.

2002 J. D. Spiegel A. Lincoln, Esq. iv. 78 The court found that the legislature has the power of amotion, with or without the law, to remove the superintendent for any reason.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. i/1 Amocion of kiddell vnder payne of x. pond and the citezens haue the same amercymentis.

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.viii^v Yf thou drede the amocyon Of his ryghtwysnes loke that thou flee Ryght fast vnto his mercyfull pyte.

1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull f. lxxxvi It concerneth the amotion and puttinge awaye the thinge that is yll and moost noysome to man, that is synne.

1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 91 Amotion of church honours and preferments.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 73 I could heartily have wished..that an Amotion of such Devoted Treasure had never been done.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 174 Restitution or delivery of possession to the right owner; and..damages also for the unjust amotion.

1834 Q. Rev. Aug. 7 You might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall with your forefinger, as attempt to remove a word out of the finished passages in Shakspeare or Milton. The amotion or transposition will alter the thought, or the feeling, or at least the tone.

a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1863) III. 333 Theft consummated by the merest amotion of the subject from the place which is occupied, is not a whit more mischievous than an abortive attempt to amove it.