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recision Now rare.|rɪˈsɪʒən|
[ad. L. recīsiōn-em, n. of action f. recīdĕre to cut back. In early use also ad. F. recision, obs. var. rescision rescission.]
a. The action of cutting back or pruning.
†b. The action of rescinding. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Recision, a recision, cancelling, or cutting off. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1658) 111 A solemn and annual Feast call'd the Sisacthia, or Recision. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 371 If they present us their blushing double flowers for the pains of recision and well pruning. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. ix. 433 Unless His Majesty rather chose to grant a Recision of the Contracts. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey; and hence in Bailey, Johnson, and later Dicts.). 1881Swinburne Misc. (1886) 256 The rearrangement and recision and reissue of a single verse. |