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A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. "By ruption or apertion." Wiseman.

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

inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

Disruption.

f being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

Eruptive. [R.] R. A. Proctor.

ndition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

ntervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden.

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Incorruption.

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

t.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numero…

A corruption of Agitator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak.

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.