exesion
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin exedere, exesum (“to eat up”), from ex (“out”) + edere (“to eat”).
Noun
exesion (usually uncountable, plural exesions)
- (obsolete) The act of eating out or through.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exesion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)