Definition of Cantion

1. n. A song or verses.

Definition of Cantion

1. a song [n -S] - See also: song

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantion

cantilevered
cantilevering
cantilevers
cantillate
cantillated
cantillates
cantillating
cantillation
cantillations
cantina
cantinas
cantiness
canting
cantingly
cantings
cantion (current term)
cantions
cantle
cantled
cantles
cantlet
cantlets
cantlie line
cantling
canto
canton
cantonal
cantoned
cantoning
cantonize

Literary usage of Cantion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Practice in Civil Causes in the Sheriff-courts of Scotland: With by John Dove Wilson (1869)
"Amount of cantion—When cantion to be Renewed, &c. represented by his trustee, ... (Z) It was clearly a waste of time to ask a Court to order cantion in the ..."

2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... cantion cliff's, should march. Absent the sire, should conduct of the war, Be in his hand ; on whom, by sacred lot, Shall manifest high gods, ..."

3. The True Theory of Rent in Opposition to Mr. Ricardo and Others: Being an by Thomas Perronet Thompson, James Mill (1829)
"... it necessarily falls into the hands of those who have less power to distinguish fallacies, and less cantion to avoid them. U is impossible nut to notice ..."

4. Annual Report by Michigan Railroad Commission, Michigan Commissioner of Railroads (1896)
"Slid ont of ore pocket into vessel; want of cantion. September 2. ... Coupling engine and way car; want of cantion. November 20, Juo. ..."

5. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the by Robert Wodrow (1836)
"1683. thcm under cantion to appear, or securing them as they find canse. " Stio. ... cantion ..."

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