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

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

-- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without app…

stom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

Without accent.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by fl…

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

Not centered; without a center.

A Christian sect without a leader.

Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

Without antennæ, as some insects.

e, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

Without a lip.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.