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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

exedere

exesum

, to eat up;

out +

edere

to eat.]

The act of eating out or through.

[Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

s as z. [L. exesus, exedo; ex and edo, to eat.]

The act of eating out or through. [Little used.]

exesion ‎(usually uncountable, plural exesions)

(obsolete) The act of eating out or through.
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