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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

abscessio

a separation; fr.

absedere

. See

A separating; removal; also, an abscess.

[Obs.]

Gauden. Barrough.

abscession ‎(plural abscessions) (obsolete)

A separating; removal.
- 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria:
  […] 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.
An abscess.
- 1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6:
  The abscession being already come to suppuration […]