cession
cession is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Concession; compliance. [Obs.]
- 2.A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.
- 3.(Eccl. Law) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
- 4.(Civil Law) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- abjure
- abrogation
- all
- apart
- argument
- aside
- avast
- away
- back
- behind
- bid
- break
- cast
- cave
- cease
- cede
- cessation
- course
- culls
- day
- deed
- defection
- depart
- derelict
- dereliction
- desert
- desertion
- desist
- desuetude
- disburden
- discard
- discontinuance
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispose
- dispossess
- disuse
- divest
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is cession.
- What is a yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft called?
- What is the giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation called?
- What is the voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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