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scissure ? Obs.|ˈsɪʃjʊə(r)|
Also 6 scissur.
[a. F. scissure (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. scissūra, f. scindĕre (pa. pple. scissus) to cut, divide: see scission.]
1. A longitudinal cleft or opening made by cutting or separation of parts; a rent, fissure.
1511Guylforde's Pilgr. (Camden) 26 Therby also..is a scissure or clyfte in the stone rok, so moche that a man almoste may lye therin. 1616S. Price Ephesus Warn. 37 Like an earthquake,..whose rent & scissure is the breaking of the heart. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. iii. 9 A robe that is thus artificially mangled, if the scissures and breaches be reconciled with ‘borders of Gold and studdes of Silver’,..appeares more glorious, than the former continuity could have made it. 1656Blount Glossogr., Scissure, a cleft, a cut or rent; the division or parting of a river. a1660Hammond Serm. ii. (1664) 20 As when the Body is torn asunder, the Soul is without any farther act of violence forced out of its place, that it takes its flight home to Heaven, being thus let out at the Scissure, as at the Window. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. 6 As if a Clayie ground should cleave with a wide scissure and swallow down a sudden Torrent. 1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. (1762) i. viii. 37 And divides it, by making in a manner a scissure. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 169 He thought that the wounds which he had made with his lance would resemble the scissures of teeth.
b. fig. A split, division, schism.
[1634M. Wilson Charity Maintained i. v. §3. 152 Contrary to which, is Schisme, from the Greeke word signifying Scissure, or Diuision.] 1643Howell Tru Informer (1661) 22 To proceed in the true discovery of these Domestick scissures. 1644― Engl. Tears 181 Torn and rent into so many scissures and Sects. c1645― Lett. (1655) III. iii. 6 To this Sect [the Presbyterians] may be imputed all the scissures that have happen'd in Christianity. 1647Hammond Power of Keys iv. 67 It would both unpeople their assemblies, and necessarily cause a dangerous scissure in the multitude. 1654Bramhall Just Vind. ii. (1661) 14 Schisme signifies a criminous scissure, rent, or division in the Church.
2. Anat., etc. A natural cleft or opening in an organ or part.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 263 Scissure is a passioun in a mannes tunge þat is as it were kutting. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 340 In the male [hyæna, under the tail] there is a scissure like the secrets of a female. 1642H. More Song of Soul (1647) Notes 138/2 It being a round fruit, and representing the seminall fullnesse of the Earth, by its scissure in the side, full of kernells or seeds. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. viii. 71 If you find after the opening of the skin, neither fracture nor scissure. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. vii. 177 That Scissure of the Face through which we breath and receive our nourishment. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Liver, These two Lobes [of the Liver] are separated by a Scissure or Cleft through which the Umbelical Vein enters. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 633 Whether the blood occupy the great interlobular scissure, and thus lie upon the corpus callosum.
†b. A segment. Obs.
1662H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 20 It is..divided into several scissures, and pieces, as is a cow's kidney.
3. The action of cutting.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 8 Socrates with many mo in wisedome excellent,..Let growe their here without cutting or scissure. |