absumption

Definition

Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.

Etymology

From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.

Example Sentences

• "Chriſtians abhorred this way of obſequies, and though they ſtickt not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, deteſted that mode after death; affecting rather a depoſiture than abſumption, […]"