† interˈcision Obs.
[ad. L. intercīsiōn-em, n. of action f. intercīdĕre: see intercide v.1 Cf. obs. F. intercision (Godef.).]
1. The action of cutting through; section, intersection. Also with an: A cross-section.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 9 Seuered..from the Cuneall bone, as also from the vpper iawe, by the intercision of that Seame. 1623 Cockeram ii, A Cutting through the middest, Intercision. 1726 Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. III. 6/1 This visual Pyramid shou'd be cut off in some one part, that the Painter may in this part express with his lines and tints, the circumferences and colours which this Intercision gives him. Thus the person who views the painted Superficie, beholds a certain Intercision of the Pyramid. Picture then is an intersection of the visual Pyramid. Ibid. III. 8/2 Fixing the place of the Intercision with..a perpendicular line, I form the Intercision of all the Lines which that perpendicular meets with. |
2. The action of cutting off the course of, stopping, or interrupting, esp. temporarily; the fact of being interrupted or ceasing for a time.
| 1625 Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar i. ii. 16, I have bin assured, that Arminius did hold..not only Intercision for a Time, but also Abscision..for ever. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xii. 361 By cessation of Oracles..we may understand their intercision, not absission or consummate desolation; their rare delivery not a totall dereliction. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iv. i. rule iii. §9 If the course and continuance of the outward act be interrupted, and then proceeded in again, when the cause of the intercision is over. |
b. With an and pl.
| a 1631 Donne Serm. (Alford) IV. cv. 420 They came..to a stopping, to an intercision, to an interruption of the water. 1659 Pearson Creed vi. 564 After these intercisions, the throne of David was continued. 1681 Baxter Answ. Dodwell iv. 35 If there were an intercision of an hundred years. 1813 [see intercursation]. |
3. Falling away, failing. (Cf. intercide v.2)
| 1647 Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 27 Yet from intercision, prolapsion, from utter and irrecoverable falling away, they are freed, because founded upon a Rock. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Disc. viii. 80 The greatest danger is of fainting and intercision. 1651 J. Goodwin Red. Redeemed i. §8 An intercision or failing of such interposals and actings. |