? Obs. [ad. L. allīsiōn-em, n. of action f. allīd-ĕre: see ALLIDE.] The action of dashing against or striking with violence upon.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., lxxvi. 774 a. That the Allision of those clouds have brought forth a thunder.
1633. T. Brown, Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 3 (1865), 268/1. Breaking out with an Allision.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 159. For their mutual ‘Allision.’
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, II. 112. That there have not been any Islands of note, or considerable extent, torn and cast off from the Continent by Earthquakes, or severed from it by the boisterous Allision of the Sea.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
