▪ I. † inˈcession Obs. rare.
[a. obs. F. incession ‘pace, gait, or going’ (Cotgr.), ad. L. incēssiōn-em, n. of action from incēdĕre to go on, walk.]
Onward motion; progression, locomotion.
| 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶197 The slow and necessary incession of mediocrity. 1658 Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 56 The incession or locall motion of animals. 1845 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) 215 Elegant young men unsurpassable in speed, endurance, and oiliness of incession [in dancing]. |
▪ II. incession
var. insession, Obs., a hip-bath.