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absumption

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Etymology

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From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

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Noun

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absumption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. []. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, [] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, [], London: [] Hen[ry] Brome [], →OCLC, page 1:
      Chriſtians abhorred this way of obſequies, and though they ſtickt not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, deteſted that mode after death; affecting rather a depoſiture than abſumption, []