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abruption|əˈbrʌpʃən|
[ad. L. abruptiōn-em breaking off, n. of action f. abrump-ĕre. See abrupt.]
1. A breaking off, an interruption, a sudden break (in a narrative, etc.). arch.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 69 Tr. O Cressida, how often haue I wisht me thus? Cr. Wisht my Lord? the gods grant? O my Lord. Tr. What should they grant? what makes this pretty abruption? a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 211 The pseudo-prophetical spirit..is also conjoined with alienations and abruptions of mind. 1779Johnson L.P., Cowley (1816) 40 Thoughts, which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance are concatenated without any abruption. 1868Milman St. Paul's ii. 40 Sudden and total abruption of all intercourse.
2. A sudden snapping or breaking; the breaking away of portions of a mass.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 145 Effused by the abruption of the glasses. 1860J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe Robinson viii. 97 A cleft, which suggested the idea of some sudden abruption of the earth. 1866Reader 1 Sept. 767 The work of abruption, or hollowing out, during the embryonic state is little less active than that of secretion or building up. 1879Bryant Pract. Surg. II. 8 The removal of the softer kinds of polypi should always be by abruption. |