Obs. [a. OF. turbacioun (14th c. in Godef.), ad. L. turbātio, -ōnem, from turbāre to disturb.] Confusion, disorder, disturbance; perturbation, agitation of mind.
c. 1400. Sc. Trojan War, II. 117. In the tyme of turbacions.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. xxv. 96. A liȝt turbacion shula not so sone springe in me.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., v. (1520), 61 b/2. There was then turbacyon in the chyrche for stryfe and heretykes.
c. 1530. Judic. Urines, II. ii. 12 b. Turbacyon and distemperaunse of the humours in the body.
1642. T. Hodges, Glimpse Gods Glory, 38. It intimates a turbation of minde.
