Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of cutting or severing; division or fission.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cutting or dividing, as with an edged instrument; the state of being cut; hence, division; fission; cleavage; splitting.
- noun Schism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
division ,separation ,cutting orsevering - noun
cleavage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of dividing by cutting or splitting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second scission occurs when a protease uses an unusual active site within the hydrophobic lipid environment to recognize and cleave the truncated target protein, releasing both the lumenal fragment and the cytoplasmic domain from the membrane.
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Royalism, make solemn final 'scission' from an Assembly given up to faction; and depart, shaking the dust off their feet.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Lt.Col. Jaguar has never created any scission (sic), any looting nor movement of his forces.
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Now schism takes its name from scission, as stated above.2 Therefore, seemingly, the sin of sedition is not distinct from that of schism.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the CORPORA
Ulysses 2003
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The Arabs hitherto in their revolt had made clean history, and I did not wish our adventure to come to the pitiable state of scission before the common victory and its peace.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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This shows that duality — or any other such numerical form — is no relation produced either by scission or association.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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He feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man's experience, some wilful illegality of nature.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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Now schism takes its name from scission, as stated above (Q. 39, A. 1).
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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_I answer that, _ As Isidore says (Etym. viii, 3), schism takes its name "from being a scission of minds," and scission is opposed to unity.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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