abscission
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From Latin abscissio. See abscind.
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He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more. |
abscission (plural abscissions)
- The act or process of cutting off.
- 1859, Jeremy Taylor, The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume, page 286:
- Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
- 1859, Jeremy Taylor, The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume, page 286:
- The state of being cut off. - Sir T. Browne
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- (botany) The separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
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abscission f. (plural abscissions)
