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discerption Now rare.|dɪˈsɜːpʃən|
[ad. L. discerptiōn-em (in Vulgate), n. of action from discerp-ĕre: see discerp.]
1. The action of pulling to pieces, dilaceration; fig. division into parts or fragments.
1647Bp. Hall Peacemaker (T.), Hence are churches, congregations, families, persons, torn asunder..so as the whole earth is strewed over with the woful monuments of our discerptions. 1741Coventry Phil. to Hyd. iv. (T.) The discerpsion of Osiris's body into fourteen parts by his relentless adversary. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xiv. 306 The discerption of his members. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi ix. (1869) 373 Heracles suffers a strange discerption of individuality; for his eidolon or shade moves and speaks here, while ‘he himself is at the banquet of the immortals’.
2. The action of tearing off, severance (of a part from a whole); concr. a portion torn off or severed.
1688in Somers Tracts II. 242 Even the Propagation of Light is by Discerption; some Effluvia or Emanations of the enlightening Candle passing into that which is lightened. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 402 The discerption of souls from thence [the mundane soul] to inhabit human bodies. Ibid. II. 291 Supposing it could be proved, that [brutes]..are discerptions too from the general fund of spiritual substance. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 37 If he..does not..restore the dead body entire, he is compelled to repair the whole of whatever has been bitten and taken from it, with discerptions from his own face. |