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vacance Chiefly Sc.|ˈveɪkəns|
Also 6 wacance, vacans, 9 vacanse.
[ad. L. vacantia (see next), or a. F. vacance (1642).]
†1.
a. A vacant period. Obs.—1
1533Bellenden Livy i. vii. (S.T.S.) I. 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. Obs.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. ii. (S.T.S.) I. 247 Þe vacance of lawis [L. justitium] was commandit. Ibid. 249 At the returnyng of quintius to rome, the vacance of lawis ceissit.
†2. The fact of becoming vacant; the vacation of an office. Obs.
1579Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 177 Upoun the vacance of ony prelacie the kirkis thairof salbe disponit to qualifiit ministeris in titill.
3. = vacation 2. Now rare.
1563–7Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (S.T.S.) 10 Heir efter..thair may be gevin sum vacans on to the first day of October. 1567Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 32/2 The Lordis of counsell and sessioun hes bene in vse..to haue vacance at Ȝule, Fastingis euin, Pasche, & Witsonday. 1609in Seton Life A. Seton (1882) 9 The Yule vacance to be and continue from the 24th December to the 6th January inclusivé. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. xii. §ii. (1699) 207 Neither the Sheriff, nor Barrons, can hold Courts in feriat, or close, time of Vacance. 1695Sibbald Autobiog. (1834) 129, I past the Bajon yeer under Mr. James Wyseman, who died the vacance thereafter. 1752J. 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. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 242 The fates o' the laddies at the Edinburgh Military Academy, on the Saturday before their vacanse. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 154 We have angled ten hours a-day for half-a-week (during the vacance). 1901Trotter Gall. Gossip 338 Give them vacance to-morrow.
attrib.a1712Fountainhall Decis. (1759) II. 345 It was just and necessary to arrest him, and make him answer, though in vacance-time. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) ii. 46 Their stamack's aft in tift In vacance-time.
†4. In Eng. use: Leisure, relaxation. Obs. rare.
1609Bible (Douay) Ecclus. xxxviii. 25 comm., The wisdom of a scribe in the time of vacance. a1760J. H. Browne Poems (1768) 141 Nor thou disdain Fit hour of Vacance with the Muses' train.
5. poet. nonce-use. A rendering of Fr. absence in the original.
1930T. S. Eliot tr. St.-J. Perse's Anabasis viii. 53 To the scale of our hearts was such vacance completed! |