Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Abscission

Ab-scis′sion

,
Noun.
[L.
abscissio
. See
Abscind
.]
1.
The act or process of cutting off.
“Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.”
Jer. Taylor.
2.
The state of being cut off.
Sir T. Browne.
3.
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity – but I need say no more.”

Webster 1828 Edition


Abscission

ABSCIS'SION

,
Noun.
[See Absciss.]
1.
A cutting off, or a begin cut off. In surgery, the separation of any corrupted or useless part of the body, by a sharp instrument; applied to the soft parts, as amputation is to the bones and flesh of a limb.
2.
In rhetoric, a figure of speech, when having begun to say a thing, a speaker stops abruptly, as supposing the matter sufficiently understood. Thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and such generosity--but I need say no more.

Definition 2024


abscission

abscission

English

Noun

Examples (rhetoric)

He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.

abscission (plural abscissions)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17th century.]
  3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
  4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams


French

Noun

abscission f (plural abscissions)

  1. (botany) abscission