abscession

abscession

English

Etymology

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

Noun

abscession (plural abscessions) (obsolete)

1. A separating; removal.
   • 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria‎:

     […] 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.

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

     The abscession being already come to suppuration […]