Definition of "abusion" []

• Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "He also put out his share of terms soon found to be of less use, like exornation, abusion, and transumption."
• "Because we vse the word rime (though by maner of abusion) yet to helpe that fault againe we apply it in our vulgar Poesie another way very commendably & curiously."
• "Here maye we soone perceyue that by abusion wee take wordes that be somwhat nye, whych property do belong to vnlyke thinges."