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单词 vacance
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vacancen.

Brit. /ˈveɪkəns/, U.S. /ˈveɪkəns/, Scottish English /ˈvekəns/
Forms: Also 1500s wacance, vacans, 1800s vacanse.
Etymology: < Latin vacantia (see vacancy n.), or < French vacance (1642).
Chiefly Scottish.
1.
a. A vacant period. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
waya1300
distancec1330
interstition1390
spacea1400
pastimea1513
vacance1533
intermission?1566
vacation1567
intervallum1574
interim1579
between-timea1586
wem1599
parenthesis1600
intermedium1611
betweena1616
fore-while?1615
interpolation1615
vacancya1616
interval1616
interstitium1624
slatcha1625
interspace1629
intermissa1633
between-spacea1641
interregnum1659
intervalea1661
interlapse1666
interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. vii. 43 This gouernance..was callit the Interregne, That is to say, þe vacance betuix the deith of ane king to þe electioun of ane vthir.
b. Cessation or suspension of laws. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legislation > [noun] > cessation or suspension
vacance1533
suspension1603
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. ii. 247 Þe vacance of lawis [L. justitium] was commandit.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. ii. 249 At the returnyng of quintius to rome, the vacance of lawis ceissit.
2. The fact of becoming vacant; the vacation of an office. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > [noun] > vacancy of an office
vacationc1425
vacance1579
sede vacante1589
vacancy1607
avoidance1660
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > action or fact of vacating office
cessationa1464
vacance1579
cession1608
cess1689
cesser1689
vacating1855
vacation1860
1579 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 177 Upoun the vacance of ony prelacie the kirkis thairof salbe disponit to qualifiit ministeris in titill.
3. = vacation n. 2. Now rare.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays
holidayc1400
vacance?1566
vacancyc1580
feriate1727
run1843
vacation1878
hols1905
getaway1923
?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 10 Heir efter..thair may be gevin sum vacans on to the first day of October.
1567 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 32/2 The Lordis of counsell and sessioun hes bene in vse..to haue vacance at Ȝule, Fastingis euin, Pasche, & Witsonday.
1609 in Seton Life A. Seton (1882) 9 The Yule vacance to be and continue from the 24th December to the 6th January inclusivé.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 413 Neither the Sheriff, nor Barrons, can hold Courts in feriat, or close, time of vacance.
1695 R. Sibbald Autobiogr. (1834) 129 I past the Bajon yeer under Mr. James Wyseman, who died the vacance thereafter.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 28 These Letters pass upon a Bill signed by three Lords in Time of Vacance, and four in Time of Session.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 773 The fates o' the laddies at the Edinburgh Military Academy, on the Saturday afore their vacanse.
1835 Blackwood's Mag. 38 154 We have angled ten hours a-day for half-a-week (during the vacance).
1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 338 Give them vacance to-morrow.
attributive.a1712 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) II. 345 It was just and necessary to arrest him, and make him answer, though in vacance-time.a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 151 Their stamack's aft in tift In vacance-time.
4. In English use: Leisure, relaxation. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [noun]
restingOE
leisure13..
voidnessa1382
remissionc1384
vacationc1386
ease1393
otiosity1483
holiday1526
otiation1589
idlesse1596
vacance1610
playa1616
vacancya1616
remissness1624
recess1644
otium cum dignitate1729
dolce far niente1814
disoccupation1834
otium1850
non-work1855
kef1864
toillessness1877
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxxviii. 25 The wisdom of a scribe in the time of vacance.
a1760 I. H. Browne Poems (1768) 141 Nor thou disdain Fit hour of vacance with the Muses' train.
5. poetic. nonce-use. A rendering of French absence in the original.
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1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis viii. 53 To the scale of our hearts was such vacance completed!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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