Ab‐scis″sion (�), n. [L. abscissio. See Abscind.] 1. The act or process of cutting off. “Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.” Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne.
3. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity — but I need say no more.”