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egression|ɪˈgrɛʃən|
[ad. L. ēgressiōn-em, f. ēgress- ppl. stem of ēgredi: see egress n.]
1. The action of issuing forth or going out from any enclosed place or specified limits.
a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. iii. 272 To send a man..To his egression. 1607Topsell Serpents 753 Scorpions, which at their first egression do kill their Dam that hatched them. 1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 117 The Cold hinders the egression of Vapors. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iv. i, Mævius..in the instant of its [the arrow's] egression..repents of the intended evil. 1767Heberden in Phil. Trans. LVII. 461 The accession of strangers and the egression of the natives being so equally inconsiderable. 1862R. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 448 The Indian peninsula is a huge cul-de-sac, into which race after race..has poured..without the possibility of any egression.
†b. spec. The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Obs. (freq. in 18th c.).
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 352 The times from the egression to the building of Solomon's Temple. 1738–41Warburton Div. Legat. II. 256 The Egression of the Israelites.
†c. transf. The issuing as a branch, etc. Obs.
1578Banister Hist. Man iv. 59 Sinewy and sharpe is the egression of this muscle at the first.
†2. Emergence from, out of (obscurity, etc.); a deviation from accustomed rules; an outburst of feeling, poetic fervour, etc. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys Argt. A j, Leuynge the egressyons poetyques and fabulous obscurytees. 1651Jer. Taylor Course Serm. i. iv. 50 Extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even Piety. Ibid. (1678) 85 The Gospel..requiring the heart of man did stop every egression of disorders. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. lxiii. 1 Egressions of affection unto God. 1738–41Warburton Div. Legat. II. 31 All Countries on their first Egression out of Barbarity. 1753Ess. Celibacy 80 Such egressions from her laws are degeneracies from the connate standard of human perfection. |