exesion

Meanings

nounexesion (usually uncountable, plural exesions)

obsoleteuncountableusuallyThe act of eating, or corroding, out or through.
he denieth the exesion or forcing through the belly
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

From Latin exedere, exesum (“to eat up”), from ex (“out”) + edere (“to eat”).

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