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concision|kənˈsɪʒən|
[ad. L. concīsiōn-em cutting up, n. of action f. concīdĕre to cut up. With sense 3 cf. precision.]
1. The action of cutting to pieces or cutting away; mutilation.
1382Wyclif Joel iii. 14 Peplis in the valley of concisioun, or sleaynge to gydre. 1609Bible (Douay) ibid., The day of our Lord is nigh in the valley of concision. 1611Bible ibid., marg. 1668Elborowe Ep. Polycarp & Ign. 78 The violence of beasts, scattering of bones, concision or chewing of members. 1805G. S. Faber Dissert. Proph. (1806) I. 51 Then will the wine-press of God's wrath begin to be trodden in the valley of concision.
2. In Phil. iii. 2 (from the Geneva version of 1557 onward) it translates Gr. κατατοµή ‘cutting off, cutting up’, used there instead of περιτοµή ‘circumcision’, and applied contemptuously to the Judaizing Christians.
1557N. T. (Genev.) Phil. iii. 2 Beware of the concision [so Rhem., 1611 and 1881; Gr. βλέπετε τὴν κατατοµήν, Vulg. videte concisionem, Wycl. dyuysioun; Tindale, Cranmer dissencion]. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 45 Peter preached against the abuse of the Iewish ceremonies, to which the Concision turned them. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 10 (1619) 219 So of such Christians as turn Iewes againe; beware of the concision, and betake vs to the circumcision. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 432 note, Concision means circumcision regarded as a mere mutilation.
†b. Hence, a rending or division (of the church); a schism. Obs.
1557N. T. (Genev.) Phil. iii. 2 note, The false apostles gloried in their Circumcision, wher vnto S. Paul here alludeth, calling them concision, which is cutting of and tearing asunder of the Churche. 1642Answ. Observ. agst. King 16 Whether this observer hath decided any thing who hath promoted the concision. a1716South Serm. III. Ep. Ded. (R.), Those of the concision who made it [the division] would do well to consider..the likeliest way to settle and support a church.
3. = conciseness. [so F. concision.]
[Not in Johnson or Todd 1755–1818.]1774W. Hooper Rational Recreat. (1794) I. Advt. 2 The whole..will..be delivered with more perspicuity and concision. 1824Byron Juan xv. xxii. 1865Lewes in Fortn. Rev. II. 692 Concision gives energy, but it also adds restraint. 1882Morley Cobden II. vi. 161 Lord John Russell described the state of things with characteristic concision. |