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excision|ɛkˈsɪʒən|
[ad. (either directly or through Fr. excision), L. excīsiōn-em, n. of action f. excīdĕre: see excise v.1]
1. The action or process of cutting off or out (any part of the body).
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 A ij b, Holowe vlceres..procede of two causes, that is to wete of excysyon and of eroysion. 1641Symonds Serm. bef. Ho. Com. D ij b, In a gangræne to endure the excision of a limb. 1758Johnson Idler No. 17 ⁋5 The excision or laceration of the vital parts. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 462 1 Excision of the lower jaw. 1864Sat. Rev. 21 May, Slitting of noses and excision of ears had, indeed, gone out of fashion.
b. fig.
1791H. More Relig. Fash. World 133 A christian life seems to consist of two things..the adoption of good habits, and the excision of such as are evil. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 256 By a manifesto published March 25, 1793..it [Poland] underwent another excision. 1851Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. ix. (1863) I. 60 The manlier and more vigorous feelings and emotions did not undergo excision. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. I. iii. 435 Defoe and the Speaker Onslow both desired the excision of rotten boroughs.
2. The action of cutting off from existence; destruction; extirpation; the condition or state of being cut off. Also fig.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxi. (1890) 76 All the grekes folke swore that troye shold be distroyed. The harde conspyracion of the same grete excysion was made ferre from my lande. 1531Elyot Gov. II. iii. xxiii. 358 O poure and miserable citie! what sondry tourmentes, excisions..and other euill aduentures hathe hapned unto the. 1626Donne Serm. xxi. 211 a, It shall not work as a Circumcision, but as an Excision; not as a lopping off, but as a rooting up. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. iii. (1852) 58 Lest the inhabitants of Plymouth should revenge that excision of their countrymen. 1846Trench Mirac. xxiii. (1862) 343 That accursed race once doomed of God to a total excision, root and branch.
3. The action of cutting off (a person) from a religious society; excommunication.
1647Power of Keys iv. 74 Excommunication..denotes the excision from all or any degree of Communion in sacris. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xvi. (1700) 143 Among the Jews some sins were punished by a total excision or cutting off. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. ix. 118 Doomed to the penalties of everlasting excision. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 92 A wrong..which the Mosaic law had punished with excision from the congregation.
4. The action of cutting out or erasing (a passage from a book, a clause from a bill, etc.); an instance of the same.
1858Gladstone Homer I. 42 Shall we..hold the received text provisionally and subject to excision. 1881― Sp. at Leeds Oct., It would be my imperative duty to make large excisions. 1884Manch. Guard. 3 Oct. 5/5 To throw upon the House of Commons the excision of the proposed clause.
5. The action of cutting or hollowing out: in quot. concr. A space hollowed out. rare.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 29 A spade-deep excision for the planks..to rest upon. |