The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.
The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne.
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."
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