obtruncation
English
Etymology
Latin obtruncatio.
Noun
obtruncation (uncountable)
- (formal) The act of lopping or cutting off.
- 1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:
- obtruncation of any member
References
- “obtruncation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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