observation (2 cf. OBSERVANCE 1, OBSERVANT, and OBSERVE)
1.
observance (of rites) MND. IV. i. 110.
2.
observing of the
wishes of others, paying court, obsequiousness John I. i. 208.
3.
=OBSERVANCE 2,
Tp. III. iii. 87
“with good life And
observation strange.”
4.
something learned by
observing, knowledge, experience Ado IV. i. 167,
AYL. II. vii. 41
“in his brain . . he
hath strange places cramm'd With ,”
Lr. I. i. 292.
