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Mentio(u)n(e, Mencio(u)n(e, Mensio(u)n(e, n. Also: mentyoun, -yown(e; mensione, -syon, -seon, -schown. [ME. mencioun (c 1300), -cyun (1303), e.m.E. -syon (Malory), -cion, -tion, F. mention, L. mentio.] The action of calling to mind, treating of or referring to, in speech or writing, treatment, statement, declaration, specification, reference, mention.Variously const.(1) c1420 Wynt. v. Prol. 53.
Quhareoff the specyall mentyowne Wes said in Crystis passyowne, ‘ Lord, lo! now twa swerdis here’ a1500 Henr. III. 171/53.
O Lord … Quhais power … Is infynite … As in the principall mencioun of the messe, All thir sayd thingis reforme as Thou best thinkis c1475 Wall. vii. 757.
Mencione off Bruce is oft in Wallace buk c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3218.
Quhat other caus or intentioun I find na speciall mentioun 1575 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 43.
We have hard na mentioun be yow … of quhome [you are] to mak chose of for your officiarris 1689 Dumbarton B. Rec. 98.
Fencibles to be raised … on mention of war(2) 14.. Burgh Laws c. 46 (A).
Gif he … makis na mencioune that is to say menyng of the fredome of his lordis fee a1500 Henr. Fab. 24 (Asl.).
Isope myn auctor makis mencioun Off twa mys c1475 Wall. xi. 1194.
Off all that her I mak bot schort mencioun a1500 Bk. Chess 2010. 1551 Hamilton Cat. 130. 1563 St. A. Kirk S. 164. 1596 Dalr. II. 172/4.
Quhen the rumour ran ouer al, that the French king had confiderit with the king of Ingland and lefte out the king of Scotis … not making mencione of him(b) a1400 Leg. S. vii. 1136.
Quhasum-euir with dewot will In lof of God mak mensione Of me & of my passione 14.. Burgh Laws c. 67 (B).
Gyf he … makis na mensyon of his fredome or his lordis fee 1493 Acta Conc. I. 293/1.
Nocht makand trew and perfitt mensioun of the valour of the samyn landis a1500 Lanc. 298.
Mensioune 1513 Doug. i. iii. 46, Comm. 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 45.
Of the quhilk mensioune was maid in the saidis lettres 1545 Douglas Corr. 156.
Ȝour letter … makis mension off the rasette off my letter(c) 1375 Barb. xvii. 469 (E).
Her befor mentioun [C. mencione] maid I Bot of a schip all anerly c1420 Wynt. ii. 598.
Autorys sere That mentyown mays of this mater 1522–3 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 212. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 83.
The historicianis that wrait thair weris maid na mentioun of Arthure 1562-3 Winȝet I. 79/19. c1575 Balfour Pract. 366. 1583 Rec. Earld. Orkney 159.
By reason that the lawmens dooms maks mention off the airth of the sky 1593 Acts IV. 23/1.
That all originall charteris … sall mak speciall mentioun in the hinder end thairof … off the name … of the wreittar 1596 Dalr. I. 50/12.
Mentione(3) a1400 Leg. S. Prol. 62.
Makand thare sum mencione Richt to Cristis ascensione(4) 1375 Barb. vi. 494 (E).
Bot how that Jhon off Lorn him had Ik herd neuir mencioun be mad 1468 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 24.
Making mensioune that [etc.] a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 69.
Bright letteris of gold … Makand mencioune quha maist of manhede couth mele 1490 Irland Mir. I. 57/10.
The haly scripture makis nocht mencioune that He tuk counsale 1513 Doug. ix. Prol. 59. 1525 Douglas Corr. 102. 1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 21.
Mentyoun 1544 Ib. 99.
Menschown 1547–8 Cal. Sc. P. I. 97.
Makand menseon how [etc.] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 27.
The scripture makis mentioun Quhen God send Jonas to that toun Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 182 n. 1595 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 63.
The godlie propheit Ezechiell makis mensione that [etc.] 1642 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 37. 1646 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 62. 1693 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 99.
William Barclay … making mention that he has been at great expenss [etc.](5) 1549 Compl. 43/19.
As diuerse historigraphours hes maid mentione c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3390.
As scripture makis mentione Ib. 3696. 1596 Dalr. I. 5/7.

b. In to mencione, in commemoration. — a1400 Leg. S. xxxi. 472.
Gret landis … the quhilkis are ȝet & hafis nam tharof be ton & tone Of the ded in to mencione