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单词 avision
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avisionn.

Brit. /əˈvɪʃn/, U.S. /əˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Forms:

α. Middle English auicion, Middle English auicyon, Middle English auision, Middle English auisioun, Middle English auisiun, Middle English auisyon, Middle English auysion, Middle English auysioun, Middle English auyson, Middle English avicion, Middle English avicioun, Middle English aviciown, Middle English avisioun, Middle English avisyon, Middle English avycioun, Middle English avysion, Middle English avysioun, Middle English avysyon, Middle English avysyoun, Middle English awision, Middle English 1900s– avision, Middle English–1500s auysyon; also Scottish pre-1700 auisioun, pre-1700 avisione, pre-1700 avisioun.

β. late Middle English aduision, late Middle English aduisioun, late Middle English aduysion, 1500s aduysyon, 1800s– advision.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French avision, advision.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman avisioun, Anglo-Norman and Old French avisiun, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French avision, also Middle French advision vision, dream (c1100, also ‘opinion’ (mid 14th cent.)) < a- a- prefix5 + vision vision n.In β. forms, as in Middle French in the form advision , influenced by classical Latin ad- ad- prefix: compare discussion at ad- prefix.
Now archaic and historical.
1. A vision; a dream.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun]
swevenc897
sightc950
showing?c1225
visionc1290
avisionc1300
phantasma1398
semblance1489
visure1535
visioning1832
α.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1096 (MED) To on of his clerkes in avisioun ther com A cler voiz..Of wham was this avisioun bote of Seint Thomas, That..tho delyvred was?
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 8748 (MED) Seint edwardes auision of þe tre þat was so hey Was þo to soþe icome.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4516 Pharaon..commanded be-for him bring Clerc and kinthe [read knihte], erle and baron To sceu til his a-uisiun.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 294 Alite er he was mordred..His mordre in his auysion he say.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 48 She awoke of her traunce and auicion.
1511 H. Watson tr. Noble Hist. King Ponthus (new ed.) sig. Diij This auysyon fell to hym twyes or thryes, so he was sore afrayed.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados iii. i. 69 Beseiking this, auisioun worth happy.
1918 A. O'Kelleher & G. Schoepperle tr. M. O'Donnell Life Columcille 121 Saint Baithin, the which was ever in the fellowship of Columcille, did behold avisions [Irish aisling], as it were the revealing of the Kingdom of God to him.
2008 P. J. C. Field Malory's Le Morte Darthur (rev. ed.) 185 Medieval science classified dreams on a physiological basis, contrasting avisions, which were prophetic and trustworthy, with phantasms, the deceptive product of waking preoccupations and digestive disorders.
β. c1450 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Rylands) ii. l. 1964 [Bodl. 263 For Dido took off Iuno this oracle, Outher baperyng outher] aduisioun. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. Advision, a vision; a dream.1966 Speculum 41 83 He suddenly found himself ‘out of his element’ and in ‘a totally unfamiliar sphere’ in the mystical advisions of the Queste del Saint Graal.
2. A warning or admonition received in a dream.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > significance of a dream > warning
avisionc1325
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 5104 Þe king þis auisyon [c1425 Harl. auysyon] þat þe aungel him sede Þe oþer king tolde priueliche him þer of to rede.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cciv. [cc.] 627 Preace thou forthe and shewe them thine aduysyon, for thou shalte be herde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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