Syon Definition

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1513, Virgil, Maffeo Vegio, and Bishop Gawin Douglas [tr.], Eneados, book 3?, lines 19–22; reprinted in.

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1874, Bishop Gawin Douglas and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld : with memoir, notes, and glossary, page 120 〃, 〃 (W. Paterson)
Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
Apon the sandis sittand on my kneis,
I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise,
Quhidder sall I speik now, or hald my peice ?
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Syon Sentence Examples

  • Some very old cedars exist also at Syon House, Woburn Abbey, Warwick Castle and elsewhere, which presumably date from the 17th century.

  • The cope belonged to the convent of Syon near Isleworth, was taken to Portugal at the Reformation, brought back early in the 19th century to England by exiled nuns and given by them to the Earl of Shrewsbury.

  • It was among the few religious houses restored in Mary's reign, when nearly twenty of the old community were re-established at Syon.

  • Syon House is now established at Chudleigh in Devon, the only English community that can boast an unbroken conventual existence since preReformation times.

  • And similar results to his were in fact independently obtained in various parts of Europe by Christopher Scheiner at Ingolstadt, by Johann Fabricius at Osteel in Friesland, and by Thomas Harriot at Syon House, Isleworth.

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