Definition of cession

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Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

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Intercession :: Intercession (n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others..
Patter :: Patter (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet..
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Continually :: Continually (adv.) In regular or repeated succession; very often.
Accession :: Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf..
Beginning :: Beginning (n.) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter..
Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite..
Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences..
Accessional :: Accessional (a.) Pertaining to accession; additional.
Successional :: Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Yieldance :: Yieldance (n.) The act of yielding; concession.
Secessionist :: Secessionist (n.) One who upholds secession.
Swell :: Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor..
Progression :: Progression (n.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
Course :: Course (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry..
Step :: Step (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession..
Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Successful :: Successary (n.) Succession.
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