allisionn.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια viii. xl. 695 Some [sounds] are made by allision, as when the ayre moued by a vehement winde doth beate against a solide body.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 260 That the allision of those clouds have brought forth a thunder.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 112 By the boisterous Allision of the Sea.

1708 Brit. Apollo 27 Feb.–3 Mar. When those headless Insects buz, Their inward Spirits cause allision, About the Pectoral division.

1788 European Mag. Jan. 34/1 The disunion there, is not the allision of one man or set of men against another; it is not of one period, nor one presidency.

1792 H. J. Pye Comm. Poetic Aristotle 55 Προσβολὴ means here the allision of the tongue against the various parts of the mouth, in the formation of letters.

1843 Merchants' Mag. Dec. 543 The term allision applies to the act of one vessel striking against another; and the term collision, to the act of two vessels striking together.

1849 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. May 512 It seems that the lines elevated by allision of the water, becoming places of least resistance to volcanic eruption, are now the most prominent, as we see them.

1916 Living Age 30 Sept. 841/1 It is the ‘game’ which mainly allures—the ceaseless allision of wits, with craft and counter-craft.

1996 Tenn. Gas Pipeline v. Houston Casualty Ins. Co. in R. Force et al. Admiralty & Maritime Law (2008) 164 The platform owner filed suit in state court against a non-diverse insurer of the tug, contending both that the allision gave rise to a federal maritime claim that was ‘saved to suitors’ under 28 U.S.C. § 1333, and that the Louisiana direct action statute gave it the right to proceed against the insurer directly.

2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle i. x. 202 Ginger and her john apparently embraced, clothes rustling, the allision of their shoes on the floorboards.

2015 M. Fingas Handbk. Oil Spill Sci. & Technol. i. 8/2 An oil spill would occur from a WTG allision only if a vessel allides with the WTG and there is sufficient force to cause spillage from either the vessel or the WTG.