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scionn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French scion. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman cioun, ciun, sioun and Old French cion, Middle French scion, syon (French scion ) shoot, tip, or top of a plant, descendant, offspring (13th cent.; 17th cent. in sense ‘cutting’), probably < an unattested noun borrowed < a Germanic cognate of chithe n. + French -on -oon suffix. Compare post-classical Latin scio, cio (13th cent. in British sources). the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip > for grafting α. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne l. 74 in W. Heuser (1904) 147 A tre..Þe rote is gingeuir..Þe siouns beþ al sedwale. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 166 As a sioun mai not bere fruyt but if it stonde stable in þe vyne. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) Num. xiii. 24 Thei..kittiden doun a sioun [L. palmitem] with his grape, which twei men baren in a barre. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil iii. i. 71 The thrid syon of treis [L. tertia hastilia]. 1590 R. Greene i. 52* A crooked sien will proue a straight tree. 1615 R. Brathwait 170 Seyons young, tender plants, Where the quire of woodbirds chants. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. xxi. 75 in Young Siens growing out at the Roots. ?1725 J. S. (ed. 3) 44 Cover the Roots of Fruit Trees that before were Open with Dung, Set Quicksets, and Graft choice Siens. 1912 42 i. 157 The question of the length of sion which is to be left is very frequently one which is troublesome to the propagator. 2. figurative and in figurative context. the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xv. 2 I am a verri vyne, and my fadir is an erthe tilier. Ech syoun, or braunche [L. palmitem], not berynge fruit in me, he schal do a wey it. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 4 We þe whiche ben þese cyouns or þe braunchis [ben oonyd] in þe verri vyne of þe sone of God. 1590 T. Lodge sig. B2 Shewe your selues siens worthie of so florishing a tree. 1596 E. Spenser v. i. sig. M6 Some of the vertuous race Rose vp..That cropt the branches of the sient base. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iv. 93 You see (sweet Maid) we marry A gentler Sien, to the wildest Stocke. View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Hockin 161 To be really in Christ, is to be grafted into him with the Cyon of divine grace. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton 298 To prevent the Extirpation of this most Ancient Scien of the Purer Religion. 1749 J. Gwynn 90 The Art of Design teaches at least as much useful Knowledge..as the Latin and Greek Tongues... Could we graft this Scion upon the present old Stock, we should not hear that so many Youths had lost their Time at the University. 1790 E. Burke 45 Upon that body and stock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant. View more context for this quotation 1818 T. Busby 429 Imitation, a scion of which the Fugue is the parent-tree. 1821 C. Lamb in Aug. 156/1 An humble and secular scion of that old stock of religious constancy. 1916 37 437 The Judas curse is really a Christian scion grafted on a pagan stem. 1996 L. D. Brodsky I. 300 Its speech transcends all the stalks and scions of the Tower of Babel. the world > people > person > child > [noun] society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose l. 28 in C. Horstmann (1878) 8 (MED) Ambrum is to seye fadur of liht, And syon a luytel child ful riht [L. sior, quod est parvulus]. 1591 in A. I. Cameron (1932) II. 165 To see so virtious and honorable syonns aryse of that race whereof we have both our discent. 1651 H. Delaune Ded. sig. A2 Those hopefull Scions, whom your fruitfull Wombe Gives to the World. 1723 E. Fenton iv. x. 52 Who wears the sword That flesh'd in slaughter, levell'd to the dust The royal stem, whence that poor scion sprung? 1772 J. H. Wynne I. iii. 462 The earl of Tyrone was a reputed bastard scyon of the noble Stock. 1803 T. R. Malthus (new ed.) i. vi. 66 Young scions are then pushed out from the parent stock, and instructed..to gain happier seats for themselves by their swords. 1816 Ld. Byron Dream ii, in 38 Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honoured race. 1869 E. A. Freeman III. 22 No son of a kingly father, no scion of legendary heroes. 1908 14 Sept. 7/1 This slim, pale scion of a worn-out line, and the nameless parentless girl beside her. 1950 Sept. 37/2 But the Western cowpunchers, although scions of an already ancient occupation, brought..prejudices. 2002 O. Figes (2003) iv. v. 262 Unlike Turgenev or Tolstoy, who were scions of the élite aristocracy, Bunin belonged to the minor provincial gentry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?c1335 |
