succision

English

Etymology

From Latin succisio, from succidere, succisum (“to cut away below”), from sub (“under”) + caedere (“to cut”).

Noun

succision (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of cutting down, as of trees.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 succision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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