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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

excisio

: cf. F.

excision

. See

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for

excision

Atterbury.

(Eccl.)

The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

(Surg.)

The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.

Dunglison.

Noun.

s as z. [L. excisio.] In surgery, a cutting out or cutting off any part of the body; extirpation; amputation.

The cutting off of a person from his people; extirpation; destruction.

The rabbins reckon three kinds of excision.