单词 | excision |
释义 | excisionn. 1. a. The action or process of cutting off or out (any part of the body). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > cutting out excision?1541 outcutting1600 exsection1607 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > [noun] > by cutting away excision?1541 exsection1607 resection1775 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aijv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Holowe vlceres..procede of two causes, that is to wete of excysyon and of eroysion. 1641 J. Symonds Serm. Westminster sig. Dijv In a gangræne to endure the excision of a limb. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 The excision or laceration of the vital parts. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 462 1 Excision of the lower jaw. 1864 Sat. Rev. 21 May Slitting of noses and excision of ears had, indeed, gone out of fashion. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 133 A christian life seems to consist of two things..the adoption of good habits, and the excision of such as are evil. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 256 By a manifesto published March 25, 1793..it [Poland] underwent another excision. 1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1863) 4th Ser. ix. 60 The manlier and more vigorous feelings and emotions did not undergo excision. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iii. 435 Defoe and the Speaker Onslow both desired the excision of rotten boroughs. 2. The action of cutting off from existence; destruction; extirpation; the condition or state of being cut off. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation excidion1490 excision1490 extirpation1526 extirping1535 eradication1548 outrooting1562 eradicatinga1660 extirpating1670 deracinationc1800 liquidation1925 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) xxi. 76 All the grekes folke swore that troye shold be distroyed. The harde conspyracion of the same grete excysion was made ferre from my lande. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxii. sig. giv O poure and miserable citie, what sondry tourmentes, excisions..& other euill aduentures hathe hapned vnto the. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 113 It shall not work as a Circumcision, but as an Excision, not as a lopping off, but as a rooting up. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. iii. 11/1 Least the Inhabitants of Plymouth should revenge that Excision of their Countrymen. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxiii. 336 That accursed stock which God had once doomed to a total excision..root and branch. 3. The action of cutting off (a person) from a religious society; excommunication. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun] mansingOE amansingOE cursing?c1120 malloka1400 malediction1447 sequestrationa1450 comminationa1464 excommengement1495 excommuny1502 fulmination1502 excommunicationa1513 aggravation1531 anathematization1547 anathemization1549 anathema1565 anathemea1575 anathematical1583 anathematizing1593 sequestering1620 excommunion1641 dischurching1644 excision1647 excommunicating1648 unchurching1655 consecration1700 innodation1731 1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes iv. 74 Excommunication..denotes the excision from all, or any degree of Communion in sacris. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xvi. 143 Among the Jews some sins were punished by a total excision or cutting off. 1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. ix. 118 Doomed to the penalties of everlasting excision. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxii. 92 A wrong..which the Mosaic law had punished with excision from the congregation. 4. The action of cutting out or erasing (a passage from a book, a clause from a bill, etc.); an instance of the same. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of writing, text, etc. cancellingc1440 cancellation1535 deleting1544 deletion1590 expunction1606 retrenching1647 retrenchment1668 erasement1721 expunging1721 erasure1755 excision1858 redaction1962 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > excision cut1604 amputation1740 excision1858 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 42 Shall we..hold the received text provisionally and subject to excision. 1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Leeds Oct. It would be my imperative duty to make large excisions. 1884 Manch. Guard. 3 Oct. 5/5 To throw upon the House of Commons the excision of the proposed clause. 5. The action of cutting or hollowing out: in quot. 1823 concrete. A space hollowed out. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a hollowed-out space excision1823 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 29 A spade-deep excision for the planks..to rest upon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1490 |
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