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remotion Now rare.|rɪˈməʊʃən|
Also 5 remosion, 5–6 -cion, -cyone, etc.
[a. obs. F. remotion (15–16th c.), or ad. L. remōtiōn-em, n. of action f. removēre to remove.]
1. Remoteness. Now rare.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xx. (1555), That lande is called inuisyble By cause onely of his remosion. 1625R. Brathwait Five Senses (ed. 2) Table, He aggravates..the infelicity of it in her remotion from Sion. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xv. 160 To signifie some length, distance, and remotion between a Mans Mind and his Passion. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 145 To remark their Remotion from, or Proximity to the Earth. 1847De Quincey Milton Wks. 1857 VII. 321 The sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities.
2. The action of removing; removal; putting or taking away.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 167/1 As sone as that Office [comes] to your hand..by deth, cession, amocion,..remocion [etc.]. 1464Ibid. 561/2 For the remocion of such ydelnes, and the preferment of labour. 1537St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 540 We thinke it shalbe mete that some ordre be taken for the remotion of the monkes. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. (1588) 285 The other point..is the carying away, or remotion of the thing that was feloniously taken. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (1650) 12 To conclude..from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 290 A Conclusion deducible by Reason..by the remotion of all other means as incompatible and insufficient for such a production. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 287 Like ideas, which arise and vanish in the memory, without the mind being able to account for their abduction, or remotion. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. vii. I. 118 This again is the mere remotion of one absurdity to make way for another. 1830Kater & Lardner Mech. i. 8 When force is manifested by the remotion of bodies from each other, it is called repulsion. 1895L. Campbell Plato's Republic II. 52 This is in entire keeping with the remotion of the actual from the ideal.
†b. Rhet. (See quot., and cf. Cicero De Inventione ii. 29, 86.) Obs.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 82 Remocion of the faute is whan we put it from vs and lay it to another. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App.
†c. The process of arriving at some conception (spec. that of God) by removal of everything which is known not to be included in it. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay iv. 49 That man may bee said to bee most skilfull in that behalfe, which knoweth most Negatiues or Remotions (as they terme them). 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. ii. 303 In the consideration of the Divine Essence the way of Remotion is chiefly to be used.
†3.
a. A motion or inclination to something.
a1450Mankind 14 (Brandl), I beseche you..with humylite and reuerence to haue a remocyone To þis blyssyde prynce.
†b. Commotion, disturbance. Obs. rare—1.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. (1630) I. 19 Fearing lest they might cause some remotion [Sp. remocion] or alteration in her body, whereby qualmes might arise.
†4. The action of removing or departing. Obs.
1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 115 This act perswades me, That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practise only. a1660Hammond 19 Serm. xi. Wks. 1684 IV. 636 It is the perversest remotion and turning away of the soul from God. 1692Sir T. P. Blount Ess. 165 Those [places] that by the several Remotions and Approaches of the Sun have different Constitutions of Air.
†5. Recurrent motion. Obs. rare—1.
1631Chapman Cæsar & Pompey Plays 1873 III. 151 To put them still In motion and remotion, here and there. |