单词 | secession |
释义 | secessionn. a. The action or an act of going away from one's accustomed neighbourhood, or of retiring from public view; the condition of living remote from one's former home, or retired from public view; retirement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > living in concealment or retirement secession1604 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > the or an act of retiring1548 retreat1589 secession1604 decession1606 retirement1606 seclusion1623 recessa1639 secesh1863 1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat To Rdr. sig. B Secession and departing the city hath beene..a meane to preserue many [from the Plague]. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Peace-maker viii. 64 The cels and cloysters of retired Votaries, whose very secession proclaimes their contempt of sinfull seculars. 1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts To Rdr. 7 To make use of my late Secession for the producing of divers..Tractates. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 302 The unspotted soul of our Jesus was really and actually separated from his body, that his flesh was bereft of natural life by the secession of that soul. 1689 I. Mather Relation State New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 152 They [sc. Non-conformists] resolved on a peaceable secession into a corner of the World. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xv. 117 No desire—or fear—or doubt that troubles the air,..that the imagination may not pass over without offence, in that sweet secession. 1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. x. 31 During this secession he lived under the same roof with an insane patient. 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church x. 106 The secession of many eminent men from the island. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away specifically of a thing > removal to a distance secession1633 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] discessiona1425 division1535 uncleaving1593 secession1633 detachment1671 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter v. 19 Natural darkness;..necessarily following upon the secession or absence of the sun. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 57 The accession of bodyes upon, or secession thereof, from its surface. View more context for this quotation 1797 Cruikshank in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 213 The secession of the amnion from the chorion. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Secession of a Parliament, the Adjournment or breaking-up of it. 2. a. Roman History. Used to render Latin secessio (plebis), the temporary migration of the plebeians to a place outside the city, in order to compel the patricians to grant redress of their grievances. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > specific demonstrations or protests > in Roman history secession1533 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xxiv. 231 At þat tyme war acceppit be þame may wikkit & sorouffull lawis þan evir war acceppit be secessioun of pepill to þe sacrate montane. 1756 W. Duncan tr. Cicero Sel. Orations xiv. 539 At first, Caesar, you thought it only a secession, not a war. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 63 Nor need we relate..how these same Plebeians,..by..their secessions to the sacred mount first obtained inviolable magistrates of their own. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > dereliction of duty > [noun] defaulta1250 fail1297 declining1526 defection1532 declination1533 defect1540 delinquishment1593 declension1597 secession1601 delinquency1606 delinquence1613 deliquity1682 dereliction1778 derelictness1888 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of allegiance departing1526 defection1542 secession1601 apostasy1855 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 23 They..who with Shebah,..will make a secession from their prince. 3. a. The action of seceding or formally withdrawing from an alliance, a federation, a political or religious organization, or the like. Hence, a body of seceders. War of Secession: the American Civil War (1861–5), which arose out of the attempt of eleven of the Southern States to secede from the United States of North America. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > [noun] schismacy1387 schism1390 scission1443 segregationa1555 concision1557 scissure1566 formal schism1641 secession1660 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > the or an act of > formally from an alliance or organization secession1660 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 222 in Justice Vindicated The Sesession [sic] of the Church, King, and Kingdom of England, from the Papacy. 1670 Ld. North Narr. Passages Long Parl. in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 12 This Secession of Members did very much facilitate the Entry into, and Continuance of the War. 1697 S. Sewall Diary 30 Sept. (1973) I. 378 That Mr. Cotton should make an orderly secession from the Church. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Marq. Rockingham in Wks. IX. 171 If the Secession were to be general, such an attendance, followed by such an act, would have force. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 335 After so many deaths, secessions, and expulsions. a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 764/1 The Church of England..would be naturally perpetuated as it now is, and every secession from it would be as truly a Schism. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 115 The secession of the Protestant Church. 1861 J. R. Lowell E Pluribus Unum in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 53 Rebellion smells no sweeter because it is called Secession. 1861 Times 23 May The term ‘secession’ is objected to,..because ‘secession’, like ‘federation’, expresses an absolute equality and correlation of rights which..the Northern States are not prepared to concede. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 355 If the private interest of any town could be better served by severance from the league there was no spirit to prevent a secession. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 469/2 [article Germany] Several communities as well as individuals declared their secession from the Roman Church. 1885 M. Pattison Mem. 235 I have spoken of the sudden lull which fell upon Oxford..the moment the secessions to Rome were announced. 1888 A. Johnston in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 772/2 Some assurance of united action must have been obtained, for South Carolina ventured into secession. b. spec. The separation from the Established Church of Scotland, initiated in 1733 by the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine and other ministers; the religious body (more fully the Secession Church) which originated from this separation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession secession1733 secessionism1899 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession > person > collective secession1733 1733 E. Erskine, etc. Protest in A. Thomson Hist. Secession Ch. (1848) 72 Therefore we do..protest that we are obliged to make a secession from them [the prevailing party in this Established Church], and that we can have no ministerial communion with them, till [etc.]. 1782 J. Brown Addr. Students Divinity in Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. p. xviii I look upon the Secession as indeed the cause of God. 1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown i. 3 That form of Scottish dissent, called the Secession..had taken its rise in 1733. c. rarely in wider sense: Withdrawal (from a share in conversation, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > the or an act of > from a share in conversation secession1843 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vi. 107 Perfectly unconscious of the secession of his other listeners. d. Also with capital initial. [translating German Sezession.] A radical movement in art that began in Vienna and was contemporaneous with, and related to, art nouveau; the style of this movement. Frequently with the. Cf. Sezessionstil n. at Sezession n. Derivatives, secessionist n. b (quot. 1901). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > art nouveau Liberty style1890 secession1896 nouveau art1902 New Art1903 art nouveau1908 squirm1909 Jugendstil1928 Modernismo1960 Sezessionstil1970 Modernisme1986 1890 Art Jrnl. July 221/1 The important secession which..followed upon the recent retirement of M. Meissonier from all connection with the great annual exhibition of Paris. 1894 Mag. of Art 17 416/1 The secession of Munich is only one of the effects of the painter's shyness of regulation.] 1896 Amer. Architect & Building News 8 Feb. 63/1 ‘Secession’ is a nom de guerre of the ‘Verein Bildener Kuenstler Muenchens (A.V.)’. a1935 F. Ponsonby Recoll. Three Reigns (1951) ix. 123 Inside it was composed of every style of mural decoration, but predominantly what was called ‘art nouveau’ or ‘secession’. 1972 T. Walters Art Nouveau 6 The Secessionists..were determined to carefully build up a whole revolutionary way of life in which every object..whether a lavatory seat or an underground station, was designed to meet the ideals of the Secession. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] runningOE rheuma1398 flux1447 fluxion?1541 defluxion1578 profluvium1603 redeliverage1612 secession1657 flix1667 eluvies1710 rhinorrhoea1846 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. E2v A Medicament is called Cathartick, or purging, because by some way it draws noxious humours out of our bodies, as by vomiting, or secession. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Secession (among Physicians), the going off [1742 (ed. 10) of a Disease] by Secretion. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. a. in sense 3b, as in Secession church, Secession movement, Secession principles, Secession synod. ΚΠ 1803 W. Taylor J. Brown's Lett. on Toleration Pref. 19 Evils which he saw coming on the Secession Churches. 1835 T. Jackson Man. Sects & Heresies 113 In 1829 the two bodies were re-joined under the name of the United Secession Church. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 645/2 It is not necessary to describe minutely the gradual extension of the ‘Secession movement’. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 132/2 This departure..from Secession principles. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 132/2 Negotiations for union between the Burghers and Antiburghers resulted, in 1820, in the formation of the United Secession Synod. b. with reference to the attempted secession from the United States (1861–5), as in secession-sympathizer. ΚΠ 1861 Whittier in Life (1893) 136 In so doing I seem to take sides with the secession-sympathisers of the North. c. Secession War n. = War of Secession at sense 3a (see 3). ΚΠ 1899 Daily News 19 Oct. 6/4 Colonel Henderson..has long since made an exhaustive and minute study of the Secession War. d. In sense 3d, as Secession exhibition, Secession school, Secession style [translating German Sezessionstil] . ΚΠ 1911 R. Fry Let. 13 Apr. (1972) I. 345 I thought that the Grafton might be used for a general secession exhibition of all non-academy art of any importance. 1949 New Yorker 5 Feb. 78/2 De Chirico..declares that the Ecole de Paris..was really founded on the Munich Secession School. 1973 Times 18 Dec. (Hungary Today Suppl.) p. i/3 The Vigszinhaz..is in the turn of the century Secession style, the Vienna version of art nouveau. C2. attributive (quasi-adj.). a. Belonging to the Secession Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [adjective] > Secession seceding1757 secession1838 secessional1838 1838 A. Thomson Hist. Secession Ch. 171 The name among Secession authors which..is best known in purely literary circles is that of Dr. Jamieson. b. Favouring the cause of secession (from the United States), secessionist. (With capital initial.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > supporting Confederate cause confederate1861 secession1865 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 182 Not Union planters only, but Secession planters, began to bring in the produce. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1533 |
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