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See Catharsis, below.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

A snatching away. [Obs.]

The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. Hume.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

See Abscission.

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

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

Absorption. [Obs.]

orbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

parating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

Pertaining to abstraction.

An idealist. Emerson.

The act of thrusting away. [R.] Ogilvie.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.