abscession

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English

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Etymology

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Latin abscessio (a separation); from abscedere. See abscess.

Noun

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abscession (plural abscessions)

  1. (rare) A separating; a removal; a going away.
    • 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria[1]:
      [] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie.
    • 1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161:
      I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow []
    • 1971, Farmer's Digest, volume 35, issue 1, page 86:
      Machine harvest is comparable in cost now to hand harvest and could be better if a suitable abscession material is found.
  2. (obsolete) An abscess.
    • 1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6:
      The abscession being already come to suppuration []