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unition|juːˈnɪʃən|
Also 6 unycion.
[ad. late L. ūnītiōn-, ūnītio, n. of action f. L. ūnīre: see unite v. Cf. OF. unition, unicion, It. unizione.]
The action of uniting; the fact or condition of being united; union, conjunction, junction. †a. Of ecclesiastical benefices. Obs.
1511–2Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §14 The appropriacion, unycion, or consolidacione of the same Patronage..to the seid Abbot & Convent. 1564Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 214 This is to require you, if upon the understanding of the matter ye shall see cause to give out such an unition [of a benefice and a chapel], to grant it. 1587Harrison England ii. i. (1877) i. 21 The vnition of two [livings] in one man.
†b. Of material substances or bodies. Obs.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iii. i. vi. 93 The curation..is accomplisshed..by vnition, or coniunction of seperated or soundred partes. 1587Harrison Desc. Brit. in Holinshed Chron. I. 78/1 After whose vnition with the aforesaid water, they run on as one till they meet with the Clothie. 1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 78 To cause these Magneticall bodies to..turne away, to the end that they may better..dispose themselues to a conuenient and naturall vnition. c1644W. Chamberlayne Pharon. ii. iii. 255 Death's large gripe did take Whole troops.., and in 's march prevents The unition of unrallied regiments. 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 140 This Unition of Bones at their articulations. 1738Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 244 Motion hinders Unition in Wounds.
c. Of abstract things, persons, etc., in non-physical or ideal union.
1584Leycesters Commonw. 24 By this breach wyth Fraunce, we stand alone..wythout anie great vnition or friendship abrode. 1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 106 That is the most singular..vnity, which consists not by vnition, but existeth by eternity. a1680Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1681) 174 The unition of Spirit with Matter. 1709T. Robinson Vind. Mosaick Syst. 21 The Seminal Forms being by a vital Unition conjoined to their Material Vehicles or Bodies. 1733Watts Philos. Ess. iii. (1734) 85 The Union or rather Unition of a particular Soul and particular Body. 1816[see unicity]. 1871W. H. Gillespie Argt. Being & Attrib. God iv. iii. (ed. 5) 159 The attributes, whose unition yields us this Holiness. 1873B. Gregory Holy Catholic Ch. xvi. 187 The ultimate unition and universal inclusiveness of the Church.
d. Of man and (to or with) the Deity. Now rare.
Sometimes distinguished from union (see quot. 1681).
1635Jackson Creed viii. 79 This part of the nature wounded..was first to bee perfectly cured, and throughly purified by personall unition to the Sonne of God. 1681J. Flavel Method of Grace v. 94 There must be an unition before there can be a union with Christ. Unition is to be conceived efficiently as the work of God's spirit, joyning the believer to Christ; and union is to be conceived formally, the joyning itself of the persons together. 1782J. Brown Nat. & Rev. Relig. iii. ii. 232 Christ..signified his unition of his people into one mystical body with himself. 1784― Hist. Brit. Ch. (1823) I. 343 Their regeneration and spiritual unition to him. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 323 The summit⁓flower of all created life Is its unition with Divinity. |