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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



... almost bald in their reticence, are the point de repere of the most magical vision expressed in the most musical verse. Here is the languid charm of Spenser, enriched with many classical memories, and pictures of natural beauty gorgeously yet delicately painted. After the excision of some verses, rather fantastical, in 1842, the poem became a flawless masterpiece,—one of the eternal ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
... syrupy article of Vyvian's; Vyvian, Peter felt sure, would have towards a private conversation just such an attitude that he had detected in himself. He settled himself to his job again, and made a rather savage excision of two ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... times rather onerous duty, giving frequent audience to the numerous contingent of eager newsmen, garrulous and prodigal with pencil and pen. Some of the new-comers to the business felt sorely hit, because they were precluded from writing at large upon all subjects connected with the campaign. The excision of their copy grieved and hurt them as much as if they had been subjected to a real surgical amputation. Yet those two officers but obeyed orders, for after all, and under every circumstance, the Sirdar, as I am well aware, was the real censor. It is perhaps fairly open to argument whether the course ...
— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh


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