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Vacatio(u)n, n. Also: -tione, -tyon, -cion, wacatiowne, -cione. [ME and e.m.E. vacaciown (Chaucer), vacacion (c1450), vacation (1461-83), wacacion (1479-81), OF vacacion.] a. = Vacance n. 1. b. = Vacance n. 2. ? Passing into c. (One's) occupation, way of life or ? var. of Vocatioun n.a. c1420 Wynt. viii 5909.
That se Wakyde to lang … And the kyrk … scathis tholyd … All tyme that it wacand wes Na in till a wacatiowne [C. wacacione, W. vacatioun] Thai wald noucht mak electyown Twyis 1508 Reg. Privy S. I 255/2.
Throu the vacatioun of the sege 1535 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 444.
Grantis … the temporalite of the said bischoprik of Abirdene … als lang as the samin sall happin to be in our handis be resoun of the vacation of the said sege 1592–3 Montg. Suppl. 331.
In caice the said benefice vaikit be the said sentence of baratrie … ȝit that samyn caus is includit in the generall caus of vacatioun 1627 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I 47.
There could not (except there had been a new rebellion to make a new cause of vacation to the king's majesty) be any new gift c1630 Hope Minor Practicks (1726) 47.
If the first heir (by whose minority the ward vaicks) deceaseth minor; in that case there is no new vacation of the ward, but the first ward continues in favour of the donator 1689 Address to the King from Commissioners of Shires 5.
Ordinary Lords of Session … that in a total vacation they be tryed, & admitted or rejected by Parliamentb. c1420 Wynt. v 777.
Thai ware till Saynt Petyr ay Helparys in hys latyr day Quhen he gave his vacatyon [C. vacacion] All hale till hys devotyon 1639 Baillie I 237.
I would have been loth to have impeachit you even in this tyme of all other lawers to much lasur and longsom vacation had not [etc.]c. 1549 Compl. 8/21.
Ane ordinance contrar … ydilnes that al his subiectis … to testife the stait of ther vacatione ande the maneir of ther lyuing 1549 Compl. 45/6, 10.
Ther prencipal vacatione vas on the neuresing of bestialite … ther is na faculte, stait nor vacatione … that can be conparit til oure stait