abscession

English

Etymology

Latin abscessio (“a separation”); from abscedere. See abscess.

Noun

abscession (plural abscessions)

1. (rare) A separating; a removal; a going away.
   • 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria‎^[1]:

     […] 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.

   • 1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161:

     I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […]

   • 1971, Farmer's Digest, volume 35, issue 1, page 86:

     Machine harvest is comparable in cost now to hand harvest and could be better if a suitable abscession material is found.

2. (obsolete) An abscess.
   • 1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6:

     The abscession being already come to suppuration […]