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单词 cession
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cessionn.

/ˈsɛʃən/
Etymology: < French cession, < Latin cessiōn-em, < cessus, past participle of cēdĕre to yield.
1. The action of giving way or yielding:
a. to physical force or pressure. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] > elasticity > yieldingness
cession1626
cessibility1644
yielding1665
flexibility1677
yieldingness1802
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §354 They both [Flame and Air] have quickness of Motion, and facility of Cession, much alike.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 36 It is the equal pressure of the Air on all sides upon the Bodies that are in it, which causes the easie Cession of its parts.
1693 J. Tyrrell Brief Disquis. Law Nature 52 That Cession or giving place to each other, which is so necessary for the performance of their motions.
b. to moral force, persuasion, or temptation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [noun] > giving in
yieldingc1425
yield1602
cession1607
yieldance1610
giving in1831
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. vi. 50 Certaine cessions of the godly, who yelded even to the very doing of certaine things imposed on them.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxxvii. 229 Excusations, cessions, modesty it selfe well gouerned are but arts of ostentation.
2.
a. The vacating of an office either by retirement or death; a ceasing to hold office. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun]
resignationa1387
surceasingc1435
resign1457
cessationa1464
dimissiona1513
demission1577
cession1608
avoidance1642
retirement1648
cess1689
cesser1689
resigning1743
retiring1808
retiral1840
inkyo1871
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > action or fact of vacating office
cessationa1464
vacance1579
cession1608
cess1689
cesser1689
vacating1855
vacation1860
1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 5 There are two persons, Dauid and Salomon, and accordingly two partes, first the cession or decease of the one, secondly the succession and supply of the other.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 65 By the Cession of many little Princes, these Petty Kingdoms were united, and greater Monarchies created.
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell i. ix. 31 The Fellowship..vacant by the Cession of Mr. John Radcliffe.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. ii. v. 408 The Cession was in Consequence of his [sc. God's] own Declaration to Samuel.
b. Ecclesiastical Law. ‘One manner of vacating or voiding an ecclesiastical benefice’; see quots.
ΚΠ
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 50 When an Ecclesiasticall person is created Bishop, or when a Parson of a Parsonage taketh another Benefice without dispensation or otherwise not qualified..their first Benefices are.. said to become void by cession.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Cession, in the case of bishops does not take place till consecration.
3.
a. The action of ceding, or surrendering to another, rights, property or anything to which one has a title or claim; also giving up anything in compliance with a demand; concession.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun]
resignationc1380
resigning1395
upgivingc1423
cessionc1440
delivery?c1452
resign1457
remittinga1475
resignment1543
surrendry1547
resignal?1573
quittancea1593
relinquishment1593
delinquishment1603
abandon1614
surrendering1648
untaking1657
permission1677
vacating1820
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > in compliance with demand
abandon1755
abdication1755
abandonment1787
cession1788
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cessyone, cessio.
a1623 H. Swinburne Treat. Spousals (1686) 179 Who..hath no direct action..without Cession, or grant first made by the Proctor.
1775 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 106 Not..that you had personally made any cession of the rights of your house.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 458 They will make great cessions to the people, rather than small ones to the parliament.
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. ix. ii. 1163 Supposing a notice of abandonment to have been duly given, no deed of cession, or formal transfer of any kind, is necessary.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 266 Notwithstanding his former cession of his rights.
b. Civil Law. The voluntary surrender by a debtor of all his effects to his creditors. (Latin cessio bonorum.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > voluntary transfer of effects to creditor
cession1622
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > surrender of goods to creditors
cession1622
bonorum1623
surrender1725
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 429 The manner of Cedere bonis, or to make cession of goods, is verie hainous, and of wonderfull disgrace.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Cession carry'd with it a Mark of Infamy, and oblig'd the Person to wear a green Cap, or Bonnet.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 473 I mean the law of cession, introduced by the christian emperors; whereby if a debtor ceded, or yielded up, all his fortune to his creditors, he was secured from being dragged to a gaol.
c. The ceding, giving up, or ‘handing over’ of a portion of territory to another ruler or state. Sometimes concrete a portion of territory surrendered.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another > of territory
cession1678
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > ceded to another ruler or state
cession1803
1678 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Treasurer Sept. (R.) To write..about the..cession of Maestricht.
1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 207 Content to make a cession of the islands to Alexander III.
1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 7 June in Dispatches (1837) I. 624 The troops which are hereafter to occupy the Marhatta cessions to the southward.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. iii. 432 All treaties for any cession or exchange of territory must be ratified by the Legislature.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. i. 9 We reluctantly consented to accept the cession of the Fiji Islands.
d. Misused for cessation n.
ΚΠ
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 276 A golden age and its cession.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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