Definition of discerption in English:
discerption
noun dɪˈsəːpʃ(ə)ndəˈsərpSH(ə)n
mass nounarchaic 1The action of pulling something apart.
Example sentencesExamples
- For the fables that are storied and related about the discerption of Bacchus, and the attempts of the Titans upon him, and of their tasting of his slain body, and of their several punishments and fulminations afterwards, are but a representation of the regeneration.
- Such punishments of discerption take place with great variety, and at intervals are repeated again and again, until the sufferers are penetrated with fear and horror at false statements made with an intention to deceive.
- He suffered the grievous punishment of discerption as to the entire head.
- The story of the discerption of his body explained the circumstance that the honor of his interment was claimed by so many different places in Egypt.
- 1.1count noun A piece severed from something.
Example sentencesExamples
- Not only is so simple an event rare to the point of non-existence; the description of it is a discerption.
- Camden and other learned writers relate how our discerptions and mutinies have been the scaling ladder by which the Romans and the Normans have formerly gotten into the nation.
Derivatives
noun
archaic adjective
archaic If by this it is meant that He is uncompounded, that His substance is ineffably homogeneous, that it does not exist by assemblage of atoms, and is not discerptible, it is true.
Example sentencesExamples
- In general, the cylindrical roller bearings, belonging to axial discerptible bearing, are suitable only for sustaining radial loads.
- All presumption of death's being the destruction of living beings, must go upon supposition that they are compounded; and so, discerptible.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin discerptio(n-), from Latin discerpere 'pluck to pieces'.