{"id":1086,"date":"2014-09-23T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/essoinments\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:26:06","slug":"essoinments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/essoinments\/","title":{"rendered":"Essoinments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>essoin<\/strong>, v. [eh-SS-oy-n]\n<p>1. <em>trans<\/em>. To offer an excuse for the non-appearance of (a person) in court; to excuse for absence.<\/p>\n<p>Earliest known usage: 1494, Acts of Parliament (1266-), Hen. VII c. 5. &ldquo;The defendaunt..be not essoyned.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>2. To accept an excuse from, let off (a person)<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/horologicon-a-days-jaunt-through-the-lost-words-of-the-english-language\/oclc\/850909324&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Horologicon: A Day&rsquo;s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>by Mark Forsyth (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.inkyfool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Inky Fool<\/a>). It is far too much fun.<\/p>\n<p>So whenever there is someone called into court who isn&rsquo;t there\/is unavailable, someone should offer an essoinment on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p><em>Many apologies, Your Majesties &#8211; allow me to essoin Lord Boris, for he is occupied in the kitchens following the exquisite feast you have just enjoyed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We shall not essoin Lord Boris &#8211; bring him before Us post-haste!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>essoin, v. [eh-SS-oy-n] 1. trans. To offer an excuse for the non-appearance of (a person) in court; to excuse for absence. Earliest known usage: 1494, Acts of Parliament (1266-), Hen. VII c. 5. &ldquo;The defendaunt..be not essoyned.&rdquo; 2. To accept an excuse from, let off (a person) I&rsquo;ve been reading The Horologicon: A Day&rsquo;s Jaunt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/essoinments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essoinments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,116,502,503,112,500],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-hw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}