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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1438, 1490-1599
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Occisio(u)n, n. Also: occisioune, (octisioun, occasioun). [Late ME. occisioun (c 1430), e.m.E. occysyon, occision, OF. occision (11th c.), L. occīsio f. occīdere Occise v.]
1. Killing (in the mass), slaughter, massacre, carnage.1375 Barb. xiv. 220 (E).
Erle Thomas … Maid … swa felloune occisioun That the rewys all bludy war Off slayne men c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 764 (C).
The clamour gret was in the toune Of the gret occisioune ?1438 Alex. ii. 9140. 1513 Doug. ix. ix. 3.
On ȝou I call To schaw quhat slauchter and occisioun [1553, octisioun] [etc.] 1513 Ib. xiii. 13, xiii. iii. 116. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 354.
The place quare maist occision and slauchter wes of Danis 1533 Id. Livy II. 209/6.
To sauf thare … preistis … with all … haly reliquis fra occisioun & fire of inemyis 15.. Clariodus iii. 1112.
Fast heir and thair the heathine ar dung doun With mortall straikis of occisioun c1550 Rolland Court of Venus Prol. 70, ii. 259.
2. Killing (of one person), slaying, murder.1490 Irland Mir. II. 5/9.
The pepil … committit mony vther maner of synnis as occisioun, pride, lichery [etc.] 1490 Ib. 31/12.
And thus this auld innemy inflammyt the euill Jowis … to the deid and occisioun of Jhesus a1538 Abell 572 a.
Sche confessit all the proces of hir occasioun and deid of him and sa gart lows thai innocentis
