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单词 encheason
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encheasonn.

Forms: Middle English enchesun, enchesoun(e, enchesown(e, Middle English–1600s encheson(e, (Middle English encheison, encheyson, Middle English enchesen, ? encihoson, incheson, inchessoun, 1500s enchesson,) 1500s–1600s encheason. Also anchesoun n.
Etymology: < Old French encheson, encheison, < encheoir , lit. to fall in, hence to be in fault (whence encheement ‘instigation, cause’, Godefroy). The Old French word was influenced in meaning, if indeed its formation was not actually suggested, by the earlier acheson (see achesoun n.) < Latin occāsiōn-em occasion; the two words seem to have been entirely synonymous, acheson being more usual in continental Old French, and encheson in Anglo-Norman and in English.
Obsolete.
1. Occasion, cause, reason, motive.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > motive
achesounc1230
encheason1297
quarrel1340
occasionc1384
springa1398
motive?a1439
motionc1475
springa1500
respect1528
regard1579
moment1611
movent1651
umbrage1664
what makes (someone) tick1931
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 111 He ascode hem..for wat encheson heo come.
c1315 Shoreham Poems 120 More encheyson hadde oure levedy..blythe for to be.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 40 Couetyse contreuede how ich myghte Be holde for holy..by þat encheison.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 2237 Quen we se enchesoun..we may clymbe vp and doun.
a1400–50 Alexander 343 Þe incheson of his charme.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 56 He made inchessoun for to abyde.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxix. l. 466 Thanne knew he wel be his Owne Enchesown that he was A synnere ful grette.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Wether l. 2557 in Poems (1981) 95 For quhat enchessoun this doggis skyn haue ȝe borne?
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 147 Thou..blamest hem much, for small encheason.
1597 J. S. tr. G. Boccaccio Statelie Tragedie Guistard & Sismond in Cert. Worthye Manvscr. Poems B ij Ease, rest, and delicates, what great encheason, They give to starre a man to corage.
1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3v Who whilom no encheson could fore-haile.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 135v Encheson..signifies..the occasion, cause, or reason for which any thing is done.
1642 W. Bird Mag. of Honour 86 Upon divers encheasons and occasions.
2. by, for encheason of: by reason of, because of.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋627 The ydel man excuseth him..in somer by enchesoun of the grete heat.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) sig. Gvv/2 They trowen that by encheson of suche manere temptacyon, they ben forgeten of her god.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxvi. f. cx For encheson that ye sayd William ayded a noble man of Pycardy.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 112 The King be encheson [margin, Be reason, or because], that the overlord is within his waird, afterward giues that land to any man as escheit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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