exesion

From Latin exedere, exesum (“to eat up”), from ex (“out”) + edere (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈziːʒən/

exesion (usually uncountable, plural exesions)

1. (obsolete) The act of eating, or corroding, out or through.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     he denieth the exesion or forcing through the belly

• “exesion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.