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Webster 1913 Edition
Absumption
Ab-sump′tion
(ăb-sŭmp′shŭn; 215)
, Noun.
[L.
absumptio
. See Absume
.] Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Definition 2024
absumption
absumption
English
Noun
absumption (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 6:
- Christians abhorred this way of obsequies […] ; affecting rather a depositure than absumption, and properly submitting unto the sentence of God.
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