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Abusion

Abusion \A*bu"sion\, n. [OE. abusion, abusioun, OF. abusion, fr. L. abusio misuse of words, f. abuti. See Abuse, v. t.] Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
--Chaucer.

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abusion

n. 1 (context obsolete English) misuse, abuse. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=10) 2 (context obsolete English) Abuse of the truth; deceit, lying. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.) 3 (context obsolete English) Violation of law or propriety; outrage, improper behaviour. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.) 4 (context obsolete English) catachresis. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.) 5 (context obsolete English) Physical, mental, verbal, or sexual abuse. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.)

Usage examples of "abusion".

Likewise that same third Fort, that is the SmellOf that third troupe was cruelly assayd:Whose hideous shapes were like to feends of hell,Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, dismayd,Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd:All shap't according their conditions,For by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd,Foolish delights and fond abusions,Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.

And, certes, that were an abusion,* *illusion That God should have no perfect clear weeting,* *knowledge More than we men, that have *doubtous weening.

But now is this abusion,* to sayn *illusion, self-deception That falling of the thinges temporel Is cause of Godde's prescience eternel.

Thereto her feare was made so much the greaterThrough fine abusion of that Briton mayd:Who for to hide her fained sex the better,And maske her wounded mind, both did and saydFull many things so doubtfull to be wayd,That well she wist not what by them to gesse,For other whiles to her she purpos madeOf loue, and otherwhiles of lustfulnesseThat much she feard his mind would grow to some excesse.