foyson
English edit
Noun edit
foyson (plural foysons)
- Obsolete form of foison.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- ...but Nature should bring forth / Of it own kind, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people
References edit
- “foyson”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
foyson (plural foysons)
- foison
- Late 14th century: Fyve þousand folk it was as greet mervaille / Wiþ loves fyve and fisshes two to feede. / God sente his foyson at hir grete neede. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale