de-accessionv.
/diːakˈsɛʃən/ Chiefly U.S.
transitive. To remove an entry for (an exhibit, book) from the accessions register of a museum, library, etc., usually in order to sell the item concerned. Also absol.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > remove from list, record, etc.
seclude1548
unrolla1616
disenrola1631
unlist1643
scratch1851
delist1919
deregister1924
delete1928
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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [verb (intransitive)] > remove book from accessions register
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1972 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. ii. 21/2 The Museum of Art recently de-accessioned (the polite term for ‘sold’) one of its only four Redons.
1973 Time 26 Feb. 43/2 ‘De-accessioning’ pictures—the barbaric museum jargon for preparing to sell.
1974 J. Goldman Man from Greek & Roman v. 33 You deaccessioned, you took something off your shelves and sold it.
1981 Times 16 Feb. 4/1 The sale of Japanese art included a group of 38 lots of Japanese lacquer ‘recently de-accessioned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York’.
1987 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 5/4 Curators may soon be tempted to start..‘de-accessioning’ what their recent predecessors have..acquired.
Derivatives
de-acˈcession n. the act or process of de-accessioning.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by removal from list
deletion1937
delisting1946
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1973 Newsweek 29 Jan. 76 Richard F. Brown, director of Fort Worth's Kimbell Museum of Art, felt that..the ‘principle’ of de-accession is right although he might ‘disagree with the particular object chosen for de-accession’.
de-acˈcessioned adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > unrecorded, unmentioned
unremembered1450
unentered1482
silent1564
unrecorded1577
unbooked1587
untolled1591
unregistered1603
unchronicled1610
unminuted1775
recordless1828
unindexed1832
unenrolled1837
uncalendared1850
unfiled1864
unticketed1865
undocumented1883
unlogged1883
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1973 Art in Amer. Jan.–Feb. 24 In order to illustrate..Mr. Hoving's policy, he should show all the de-accessioned works.
de-acˈcessioning n.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by removal from list
deletion1937
delisting1946
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1973 New Yorker 31 Mar. 83/1 Money gained through sales—or ‘de-accessioning’, in museum parlance—is often used for acquisitions.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Dec. 1604/2 The acquisition by Mellon from the Hermitage of famous paintings... This early twentieth-century instance of sensational ‘de-accessioning’ as it was to be uneuphoniously called by later adepts of the technique.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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