absumption
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.
Noun edit
absumption (uncountable)
- (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, […]