Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of cutting off.
- n. Botany The shedding of leaves, flowers, or fruits following the formation of the abscission zone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of cutting off; severance; removal.
- n. The act of putting an end to; the act of annulling or abolishing. Sir T. Browne.
- n. Retrenchment.
- n. The sudden termination of a disease by death. Hooper, Med. Dict.
- n. In rhetoric, a figure of speech consisting in a sudden reticence, as if the words already spoken made sufficiently clear what the speaker would say if he were to finish the sentence: as, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and such generosity—but I need say no more.”
- n. In astrology, the cutting off or preventing of anything shown by one aspect by means of another.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of cutting off.
- n. rhetoric A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of cutting off.
- n. The state of being cut off.
- n. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.”
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of cutting something off
- n. shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
Etymologies
- From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō ("I cut, I tear"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission 13.”
“Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission”
“Too much warm weather, no local frost yet, the poor abscission sp? layers are getting mixed signals.”
“Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.”
“On some trees, the petioles of last year's leaves were still attached to the dead twigs late the following summer, showing that the freeze occurred before the abscission layers had formed.”
“It was apparent that this early freeze came before the abscission layers were formed in the leaf bases or growth matured.”
“(I January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.”
“-- Your sad predictions were well founded; the painful abscission has been made; we bore it at least with good sense and dignity.”
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
“He told me the abscission of the tongue was very common in the”
“The abscission of a vowel is undoubtedly vicious when it is strongly sounded, and makes, with its associate consonant, a full and audible syllable.”
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