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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)

  1. (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.