absumption

English

Etymology

From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

Noun

absumption (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter 1.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388, page 9:
      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, […]
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