Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Departure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Departure.
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- noun obsolete
departure
Etymologies
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Latin discessio, from discedere, discessum. See discede.
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Well informed in the rules of debate upon the questions which naturally arose in the church conferences, -- a qualification which but few of the pastors possessed, -- he, as a general rule of the church, presided at all business meetings unless necessarily absent, and from the discession of
The First Colored Baptist Church in North America Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors. James Meriles 1888
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