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third-person singular simple present essoins, present participle essoining, simple past and past participle essoined
(UK, law, transitive) To excuse for failure to appear in court. quotations examples
I'll not essoin thee.
1633, Francis Quarles, Divine Poems
(UK, law, obsolete) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
(obsolete) Excuse; exemption. quotations
From euery worke he chalenged essoyne.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 20