concisionn.
/kənˈsɪʒən/ 1. The action of cutting to pieces or cutting away; mutilation.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument)
shearingc1315
paring1319
concision1382
shaving1390
thwiting1393
forcingc1440
trousing1512
trimmingc1525
circumcision1581
snipping1583
clipping1589
snip-snap1597
trim1608
whittling1614
collinga1628
shripping1635
snippery1639
undercuttinga1652
exscindinga1677
nipping1693
snip-snapping1906
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > cut > action of
concision1382
slashing1596
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Joel iii. 14 Peplis in the valley of concisioun, or sleaynge to gydre.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Joel iii. 14 The day of our Lord is nigh in the valley of concision.
1611 Bible (King James) Joel iii. 14 (margin) .
1668 Elborowe Ep. Polycarp & Ign. 78 The violence of beasts, scattering of bones, concision or chewing of members.
1805 G. S. Faber Diss. Prophecies (1806) I. 51 Then will the wine-press of God's wrath begin to be trodden in the valley of concision.
2. † b. Hence, a rending or division (of the church); a schism. Obsolete.
a. In Philippians iii. 2 (from the Geneva version of 1557 onward) it translates Greek κατατομή ‘cutting off, cutting up’, used there instead of περιτομή ‘circumcision’, and applied contemptuously to the Judaizing Christians.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > judaizing
concision1557
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Phil. iii. 2 Beware of the concision [so Rhem., 1611 and 1881; Gk. βλέπετε τὴν κατατομήν, L. videte concisionem, Wycl. dyuysioun; Tindale, Cranmer dissencion].
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 45 Peter preached against the abuse of the Iewish ceremonies, to which the Concision turned them.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 10) 219 So of such Christians as turne Iews againe; beware of the concision, and betake vs to the circumcision.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. xlvii. 432 ‘Concision’ means circumcision regarded as a mere mutilation.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > [noun]
schismacy1387
schism1390
scission1443
segregationa1555
concision1557
scissure1566
formal schism1641
secession1660
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Phil. iii. 2 (note) The false apostles gloried in their Circumcision, wher vnto S. Paul here alludeth, calling them concision, which is cutting of and tearing asunder of the Churche.
1642 R. Burney Answer Observ. iii. 16 Whether this observer hath decided any thing who hath promoted the concision.
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Those of the Concision who made it [sc. the division] would do well to Consider..the likeliest way to settle and support a Church.
3. = conciseness n. [so French concision.] Not in Johnson or Todd 1755–1818.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [noun]
fastness?a1200
compendiousness1398
short speaking14..
shortness?c1450
brevity1509
briefness1530
pithiness1557
laconism1570
succinctness1609
parsimony1650
laconicism1656
nexility1656
syntomy1656
conciseness1659
closeness1712
compendiosity1727
pressness1728
abruptness1731
concision1774
laconicalness1830
compactness1841
terseness1864
Spartanhood1880
Spartanism1880
brachylogy1882–3
condensity1885
1774 W. Hooper Rational Recreat. (1794) I. Advt. 2 The whole..will..be delivered with more perspicuity and concision.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxii. 16 I meant to make this poem very short.. . No doubt, if I had wish'd to pay my court To critics,..my concision Were more;—but I was born for opposition.
1865 G. H. Lewes in Fortn. Rev. 2 692 Concision gives energy, but it also adds restraint.
1882 J. Morley Life R. Cobden (new ed.) II. vi. 161 Lord John Russell described the state of things with characteristic concision.
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