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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Serial :: Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical..
Intercede :: Intercede (v. i.) To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you..
Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Millionth :: Millionth (a.) Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Accession :: Accession (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm..
Synchronal :: Synchoresis (n.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.
Drill :: Drill (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press..
Inverse :: Inverse (a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x..
Precessional :: Precessional (a.) Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes..
Tinkling :: Tinkling (n.) A tinkle, or succession of tinkles..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..
Click :: Click (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick..
Concessive :: Concessive (a.) Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction..
Accretion :: Accretion (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth..
Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
Secessionist :: Secessionist (n.) One who upholds secession.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke..
Concession :: Concession (n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal..
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