Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of pulling to pieces or of separating into parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
pulling ortearing something topieces
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Examples
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For the fables that are storied and related about the discerption of Bacchus, and the attempts of the
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It is an important thought, that death, judged of by corporeal analogies, certainly implies discerption or dissolution of parts; but pain and pleasure do not; nay, they seem inconceivable except under the idea of concentration.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Having lived in Fresno CA, and traveling the world I love your discerption.
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In this persuasion certain of the Aztec priests practised complete abscission or entire discerption of the virile parts, and a mutilation of females was not unknown similar to that immemorially a custom in Egypt. [
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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