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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.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

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

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.

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parating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.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.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

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

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