exesion

English

Etymology

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

Noun

exesion (usually uncountable, plural exesions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of eating out or through.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exesion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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