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Excision   Listen
noun
Excision  n.  
1.
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."
2.
(Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
3.
(Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.





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"Excision" Quotes from Famous Books



... seem impossible that, in an atmosphere created chiefly by these two women, there could be such a kind of artistic enjoyment. The most conservative reader is inclined here to agree with those who perform an act of excision upon the text of Homer. The whole passage grates too harshly upon nerves which have been attuned to the sweet innocent life depicted in the two ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider
... morphine; for weakness, stimulation; for fever, bathing; for buboes, application of ice, injection of bichloride and excision ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... deal of kicking and hustling on the part of the victim's schoolfellows to arrest this process, and the cure is generally only effected outwardly. Priggishness cannot be eradicated from the system in a moment, even by the most heroic measures. Its excision involves a slow mental process, the converse of that which served to call it into existence. The prig has to divest himself of the false mental outlook imposed upon him by his education, and to begin all ...
— The Curse of Education • Harold E. Gorst


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