abscession

plural abscessions

1. rareA separating; a removal; a going away.

   Machine harvest is comparable in cost now to hand harvest and could be better if a suitable abscession material is found.

   1971, Farmer's Digest, volume 35, issue 1, page 86

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   […] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie.

   1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria

   I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […]

   1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161

2. obsoleteAn abscess.

   The abscession being already come to suppuration […]

   1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6