Noun
Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
Usage- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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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, […]