English
Etymology
From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.
Noun
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#obsolete Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
#*1658: Christians abhorred this way of obsequies [...]; affecting rather a depositure than absumption, and properly submitting unto the sentence of God � Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 6)
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