单词 | excussion |
释义 | † excussionn. Obsolete. 1. The action of shaking, casting, or putting out or off, material or immaterial things. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] everting1568 deposition1577 discarding1600 excussion1607 dispatch1608 reposition1617 absolution1655 depositing1667 discardment1713 discardurea1762 cashiering1826 dropping1859 discard1906 junking1911 shedding1945 load-shedding1947 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 125 The new bunches swelling vp..do thrust off the old hornes, being holpe..by the willing excussion of the beast that beareth them. 1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. iii. 20 The iust excussion of that seruile yoke. 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. vi. 183 Extrusion or excussion of the Muscle that moves the Jaw. 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 73 Fire is, by excussion, kindled from flint. 1698 Considerations conc. Succession & Alleg. 33 The late King's Excussion of his Regal Authority. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 2. ‘Diligent inquisition or examination’ (Bailey). Richardson cites an example of this sense from Wats' tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. (1640) vi. ii. 274; but the word is a misprint for excursion (the original having excursio). 3. Modern Civil Law. [Compare Old French escussion in same sense.] Seizure of goods for debt, etc. ΘΚΠ 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 > seizure of goods naamlOE distressc1290 distrainingc1380 stress1443 attachmenta1450 poinding1462 distraina1500 strain1526 distressing1599 excussion1622 multiplepoinding1642 namation1706 distraint1730 distrainment1756 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 453 Debarring..the exceptions of Prescription, Excussion, etc. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 272 If upon such an Excussion there are not Goods found sufficient..his Body may be attach'd. 1755 in Johnson ; whence in Ash , etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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