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The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

r practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

See Apsis.

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. [Obs.] Raleigh.

A standing aloof. [Obs.]

ne of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

An idealist. Emerson.

A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

An Academic philosopher.

Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.

Affected refusal; coyness.

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.

To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

One who accomplishes.