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Concession; compliance. [Obs.]

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin.

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

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

uest, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. -ries.

One who favors concession.

Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Departure. [Obs.]

Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.

n favor of, or (less often) against, another or others. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. Rom. viii. 26.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty.

To entreat. [Obs.]

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.

The act of going before, or forward. Lunisolar precession. (Astron.) See under Lunisolar. -- Planetary precession, that part of the precession of the equinoxes which depends on the action of the planets alone. -- Precession of the equinoxes (Astron.), the slow backward motion of the equinoctial points along the eclip…

Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.

g; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. Bp. Pearson. That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free. Trench.