Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cutting off; interception.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption.

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Examples

  • The dastardly deed is: ... cutting away the child's dæmon by a process called intercision which is equivalent to disconnecting their souls from their bodies fifth indicator ...

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • The dastardly deed is: ... cutting away the child's dæmon by a process called intercision which is equivalent to disconnecting their souls from their bodies fifth indicator ...

    [black is white, white is black] a golden compass will get us back 2008

  • The parallel universes, intercision, and Dust were supposed to be revelations.

    A second look at the Golden Compass movie Tarie 2007

  • The characters and audience learning about the parallel universes, intercision, and Dust shouldn't have been rushed through forced and corny dialogue.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Tarie 2007

  • The parallel universes, intercision, and Dust were supposed to be revelations.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Tarie 2007

  • The characters and audience learning about the parallel universes, intercision, and Dust shouldn't have been rushed through forced and corny dialogue.

    A second look at the Golden Compass movie Tarie 2007

  • Yea, upon such a blasphemous imagination, that there could be an intercision for one moment of influences of spiritual life and grace from the person of

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Wherefore the very being of the church, as unto its internal form, depends on the Spirit in his dispensation of grace; which if you suppose an intercision of, the church must cease.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Of the groundlessness of their opinion who, granting final perseverance, do yet plead for the possibility of a final apostasy and an intercision of faith, no more need be spoken but what, upon the account last mentioned, hath been argued already.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Through so many surrounding deaths is he kept, and still from time to time returned, and brought safe back again to us; whereas the continuation of such a thread by moments, hath so great a weight hanging upon it, that if there had been an intercision, as there might have been in a moment, it is inexpressible, yea inconceivable, what miseries might have come upon us.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

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