decerption

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɜːpʃən/

Noun

decerption (plural decerptions)

1. The act of plucking off; a cropping.
2. That which is plucked off or torn away; a fragment; a piece.
   • 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:

     if our souls are but particles and decerptions of our parents, then I must have been guilty of all the ſins that ever were committed by my Progenitors ever since Adam

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “decerption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)